The bullying old ranter has hung up his cudgel

And not a day too soon. He might claim to be a good Protestant, but for most of the last half-century he has been the incarnate antithesis of Christianity.

There's at least as much blood on his hands as on those of the Republican "terrorists" that he used to rant on about. If he'd accepted the original Sunningdale agreement as opposed to its present-day clone, we could have at least been spared three additional decades of bloodshed.