The Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing was in my mind last week when watching the Assembly shenanigans, which resembles more and more a Northern Ireland version of the Circus Maximus.

They were debating a fruitless motion of no confidence in the education minister, Paul Givan, over his visit to a school in Israel.

That the visit took place in part of the internationally recognised illegally-occupied territory of East Jerusalem simply fanned the flames of outrage.

The minister, as an individual, has an absolute right to go wherever he chooses. As indeed does everyone. He was never concerned about the opposition of his fellow Assembly members or even his government partners to his actions.

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