They will have to shed cherished illusions about how to deal with jihadist terrorism. We were different, but we know the feeling
Since the Manchester atrocity a lifetime ago on Monday night, we can hear echoes of the Troubles every day. The elevation of suicide into martyrdom is a common theme but very differently enacted and very differently received; passively- aggressively by hunger strike thirty five years ago and bitterly dividing opinion to this day: aggressively only by the IED of militant jihad today; generally condemned except by their own but probably secretly admired by more than we care to acknowledge. The …