The cost of intransigence - Silent Stormont faces a pay cut

That great arbiter, the Guinness Book of World Records, has declined to recognise the record set in Northern Ireland last week.

The region became the jurisdiction without a government for the longest period in peacetime but Guinness said NI was “not eligible” for the record as it could have laws passed at Westminster. This seems to dismiss the integrity of NI’s politics but recognise enduring and toxic tribalism.