AS Ruth Wishart points out, the Northern Ireland Protocol is “still the subject of friction on all fronts”. Arlene Foster had already expressed her unhappiness with this, but this did not save her job which will shortly be taken over by Edwin Poots – who will be Ms Foster all over again, but more so. Meanwhile Scotland moves toward independence, to the extent that a 95-year-old widow is reportedly being pressed into service to front a “charm offensive” intended to frustrate this.
At the same time Westminster is laying plans to pull the UK together to something more resembling a unitary state, as Ms Wishart concludes. However, I think she misses two things.