Readers' Blog: The UK’s empire is dead and gone

Goethe wrote in 1832, “I hate all bungling like sin. but most of all bungling in state affairs, which produce nothing but mischief to thousands and millions”.

Fr Martin Magill brought his audience of sheepish looking politicians reluctantly to their feet amid thundering applause from the crowded church at the funeral of Lyra McKee with his chastising rebuke, “in the name of God”.