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A losing game
The latest woes of the DUP do not represent the last moment for unionist politics in Ireland, but they do mark a further stage in its disintegration, says NICK WRIGHT

THE more theologically minded members of the Democratic Unionist Party in Ireland hold as doctrinally sound the proposition that the Lord created the universe in six working days.
A mere 6,000 years ago, Edwin Poots holds, the Lord created the celestial vessel on which we all dwell.
This is not the only delusion that dominates the thinking of the DUP’s dinosaurs.
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