This evening, we mark twenty-five years since the signing of the Good Friday peace agreement, an agreement which resolved almost a century of conflict in Northern Ireland. Since then, peace has flourished there, and the paramilitary turmoil which once blighted that area of the UK is now far behind it. Yet surely the thing that must now baffle us all is how that peace has now been endangered by Brexit. How could any civilised, educated society knowingly allow violence to potentially return, or at least withdraw from the political body which made peace possible, just to satisfy a sense of nationalistic arrogance? How could any society be so stupid? Of course, I hope we do not see a return to the troubles, and I’m not saying we definitely will, but Brexit has made it a possibility. If that is so, as monumental as this anniversary is, how could we be so foolish to allow such progress to be potentially undone?