Sinn Féin still finding it hard to shake hand of British monarch

More than two decades have passed since Margaret Thatcher’s defenestration, but she remains the Rolls Royce of right-wing hate figures. Meanwhile, up in Belfast, Niall Ó Donnghaile, the city’s lord mayor, was paying accidental homage to an exact contemporary of the former prime minister. Enda Kenny is now a different fellow to me. I imagine him swilling champagne to the Pet Shop Boys while bellowing into a mobile phone the size of a fridge freezer. They were “Thatcherites”.

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