Red Hand is the only shared symbol we have. And the roundabout would be great for handbrake turns Do you consider that Unionism and Nationalism both are honourable and sincerely-held positions, equally worthy of respect? Take a bow if you do. I've met very few people who genuinely believe that. At best, they'll pay lip-service to the notion of equality of aspiration, while secretly being (even slightly) contemptuous about one side or the other. The trick is to find a structure which accommodates Irish-ness and British-ness without degenerating into the usual winners and losers narrative. Predictably, there has been no creative thinking about this at all. Ever. And the winners and losers game continues to this day. Current, trendy, thinking is that, for peace to be cemented, far from respecting both traditions, the Irish and British traditions in the North both should be phased out, and supplanted by a new, "third way" identity. That is a form of cancel cu