| Two weekends ago it was sunny in Belfast, last weekend when I was in London it was sunny over Remembrance, and today is November grey across these islands. Ruth Dudley Edwards writes of her visit to the cenotaph in London, and how it made her think about the letter by military leaders who are outraged at this government's legacy capitulation to Ireland and to the IRA. Talking of which, it is 40 years to the day since the Anglo Irish Agreement, which unionists despised. We report proof that Margaret Thatcher regretted her deal within weeks of signing it.
This week in Cambridge I spoke to Lord (Charles) Powell, then her key advisor, who said that she went to her death still upset about it. I write about how she was persuaded by foolish officials that Ireland would help against the IRA, and how the current legacy scandal has its origins in that deal.
Meanwhile, William Matchett - once of the outstanding but now cruelly maligned RUC - writes about how the murder of two policemen in Londonderry days before Bloody Sunday by McGuinness's terrorists is entirely overlooked. And Tom Carew of Dublin is scathing about the republican new Irish president's wholly political inauguration speech. An anti British partinsanship, that Owen Polley reminds us in this excellent long essay, President Higgins helped to pioneer. On a far happier note, that wonderful son of Belfast Sir James Galway is home for an honour this weekend.
Enjoy your Saturday, and your reading,
Ben | 
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