I'm grateful to the Observer Review for alerting me to this photo of Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness sharing a sofa with the words "Home is the most important place in the world" behind them. You imagine that Martin McGuinness is about to say "Tea? - Shall I be mother?"The photo was taken at the opening of the Belfast Ikea.
These cosy pictures of Paisley and McGuinness are commonplace now. And thank the Lord they are working together. But when you compare it to thirty years of complete cold war and "No - never", "Over my dead body" etc between the two, then you begin to wonder: Are they play acting a bit now? Or were they play acting a lot then? Or is it a bit of both?
You can't suddenly go from being at daggers drawn and virtually spitting at each other to being bosom buddies.
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