Reaching for the Orange card

At a time of crisis, with two prime ministers on hand, all the DUP can think about is loyalist parades

Just before Christmas, Peter Robinson of the DUP and Reg Empey of the UUP attended a secret meeting hosted by the Orange Order. It was chaired by the order’s Grand Master, Robert Saulters, and took place at Schomberg House in Belfast, the headquarters of the Orange Order in Ireland.

There was a single item on the agenda - unionist unity in the face of the growing threat of both Jim Allister’s Traditional Unionist ...