Scathing criticism of president: Can America control Trump?

Last week, we celebrated one of the great achievements of modern politics in these islands.

By honouring the Good Friday peace deal, we marked a triumph of politics over tribalism. That the deal is becalmed between forces unable to replace animosity with ambition is a failure of today’s politics — a failure criticised by the senior statesmen and women who achieved the unimaginable two decades ago.