Let’s take the ‘but’ out of politics on both sides of the Border

“A PLAGUE on both your houses.” So said Shakespeare’s Romeo of the Montagues and Capulets before he expired.

Sometimes I think he’s really been listening to the Northern Ireland news - albeit from the vantage point of 17th century Verona. And pretty sickening news it very often is.

I refer this time to a bunch of fascist thugs, who call themselves loyalists, barging their way into a college in east Belfast and threatening students to leave the area.