Brexiteers sideline democracy: Where is the UK coalition of the sane?

Sometimes great change, maybe the greatest of change, comes in a quiet, almost unspoken way — certainly without the triumphalism that hinders bridge building.

Many Irish people who were teenagers when the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising was marked, the generation who saw the North begin 30 years of carnage a few years later, went through political and cultural change as low-key as it was profound.