REMEMBER the New Decade, Same Approach con job, signed on January 9 2020, which revived the Executive on January 11?

We’re exactly six years into the decade and it’s made no difference whatsoever.

It’s true that it was an aberration, a brief interlude in a hostile stand-off between the ultra-English nativist London government and the Dublin government trying to assert its rights in the Good Friday Agreement.

Simon Coveney and Julian Smith, who brokered the deal, were using language that hadn’t been heard since before Brexit in 2016.

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It didn’t last long. Boris Johnson sacked Smith and appointed a trusted yes man as proconsul. He’s now chiefly remembered for telling the House of Commons that the government intended to break international law “in a very specific and limited way”.

Britain ratted on the deal by March 2020, repudiating the legacy arrangements agreed with Dublin in January. Over the ensuing years most of........

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