Something wicked is stirring once again in the North

Sectarian rhetoric and anti-immigrant sentiment are on the rise

Loyalist Tigers Bay mural and Vote Leave EU with the biblical reference to Revelation 18:4 on the gable wall of a property in north Belfast, on Wednesday.  Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Loyalist Tigers Bay mural and Vote Leave EU with the biblical reference to Revelation 18:4 on the gable wall of a property in north Belfast, on Wednesday. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Westminster got a taste of Britishness Ballymena style last week with the skirl and thump of loyalist bands on Parliament Square.

There was also a retro turn from Ian Paisley jnr who leapt on to Leave EU’s equivalent of the back of a lorry to perform a sort of tribute act to his late father in the “never, never” days, before the old man accepted peace as the price of power.

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