Good Friday – put at risk by an act of folly

Beacon of Hope, BelfastThe Good Friday agreement – ‘one of the great achievements of the turn of the century’ – brought to an effective end nearly thirty years of violence in Northern Ireland. The UK attorney- general Suella Braverman is now accusing the EU of putting the peace process at risk by holding the Johnson government to the terms they signed in the Brexit deal – which is a reversal of the truth. Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary, in between bouts of la