The Good Friday accord has been one of the most successful peace deals in history
, rather than the substance of how best to address the serious problems facing the UK, is yet another sign of the depressingly narrow horizons that British politics now seems to operate within.
With any luck, the global focus on how Northern Ireland pulled itself up from the depths of despair will be a lesson to the UK Government and Opposition.strengthen relations with the US . Deeper transatlantic ties were supposed to be one of the great dividends of Brexit, but leaving the EU has done more to stoke tensions with America than it has to bring these two old frenemies together.
A quarter of a century on from the Good Friday Agreement, the UK takes a moment to look back; and hopefully to look forward with renewed energy, focus and drive. We can dream, at least.
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