Collusion has a long history

SURELY your columnist Steven King (Irish Examiner, January 31) does not expect us to believe there was no collusion between British state forces and loyalist paramilitaries during the Troubles in the North.

His criticism of Nuala O’Loan’s collusion report bordered on the ridiculous.

It is widely accepted that collusion between British forces and loyalist paramilitaries was encouraged and facilitated in the North since partition. It is as simple as that.