Thank you! Unfortunately I missed most of the broadcast but I did manage to catch it before it ended. I'll have to listen to it again on the iPlayer. But I agree, we have to move on and peace is always better for any economy. I don't know if you listened to the wonderful programme about Amnesty International on the World Service the other day. It's a two-part series marking fifty years of the organisation. In it one of its early senior executives explains how they argued whether they should support Nelson Mandela when he was imprisoned. Ultimately they decided not to because of the non-violence element of their qualification criteria. Until Mandela gave up his public call to violence, AI did not consider him a prisoner of conscience.

As for Ireland, I think it's quite incredible just how far things have come. The fact McGuinness and Paisley ever came together and agreed on a power-sharing deal has to be counted as one of the greatest victories in the history of human conflict. But I think the real test since then has been the splinter groups that have tried to destabilise the peace process and so far the republicans and the unionists have done well to stick together. It's easy to forget that it was just over a decade ago when the DUP refused to even consider a power-sharing deal until the IRA gave up its weapons. And look at them now... the other day, a DUP member even went as far as praising Martin McGuinness. I'm sure most people wouldn't have thought that could happen in their lifetime.