IT SAYS something about Northern Ireland today that the focus of popular attention this weekend was not bombs and assassinations but a small group of Mohawk Indians at the parade in Belfast to commemorate the Battle of the Boyne, at which the forces of the Roman Catholic king James II were defeated.
Lord Butler of Brockwell is sensitive to the suggestion he is an "establishment" figure who will play down any weaknesses in the way that intelligence was handled in the run-up to the Iraq war.
