Today is an historical day. Two sworn enemies put themselves up for election so that they can go into government together. It's as if Lord Sauron and Donkey were to become joint managers of the Republic of Ireland football team. It's, like, that historical.

Twaddle of course.

But not as bad as concocting a witless analogy with Israel and Palestine to help "convey the scale of the transformation now underway in Northern Ireland."