Politics of colonisation come home to roost

With the IRA's farewell to arms the platitudes from the moral high ground about the North may disappear forever.

Now that the Provos have finally decided to leave the Armalite in the thatch for supervised destruction by the Canadian general, it's been a week when some political birds have been flying home to roost.

Now that the Provies have gone away, what will all the armchair generals do without them? From now on, quite a few will have to climb unsettlingly down fromthe political moral high ground, from where they have been ...