Irish Examiner view: Business as usual despite aftershocks

Jeffrey Donaldson's political life has ended in failure

Jeffrey Donaldson has been charged with allegations of a historical nature.

It was that problematic character Enoch Powell who once observed that “all political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.” 

He was writing his line of Joseph Chamberlain, statesman, imperialist, and a man with highly portable principles.