The Sun writes that the IRA will formally "surrender" today. We're on the edges of our seats waiting for an announcement that uses that word.

Background here.

Apologies, by the way, for the big gap in blogging, and the light blogging in general for the last I-don't-know-how-long. I've been struggling to secure some income flows (i.e. I've been working), and over the weekend I took a nice little holiday in Amsterdam. Amazingly, I'd never been to Amsterdam before. It was pretty much just like I imagined it.