Brexit showdown Monday
In Hamlet, Marcellus, an officer of the palace guard, seeing the ghost of the dead king, walking over the palace walls, observes, ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’. Shakespeare would be spoiled for choice for a location for those words today – whether in Brussels, Washington, Westminster. Or indeed, at Stormont, where the Northern Ireland Assembly has failed to agree a plan for government and has not met this year. The crisis came after the late Martin McGuinness,
