I love Mo Mowlam. Of all the Labour MPs that ever were, I love Mo Mowlam the most. There is an obvious reason for this ardent love of Mo Mowlam. The job of secretary of state for northern Ireland is widely acknowledged as one of the most difficult, and indeed…

Despite generally considering myself a fairly well informed person, there are a lot of things I don’t pay particularly close attention to. I’m only vaguely aware that the world is running out of sand; I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about concentration camps in Nauru, nor do I…