Bobby Storey’s interment in Belfast last week was a military funeral pretending not to be: Sinn Féin organised some 1,800 men and women to dress uniformly and line up as a paramilitary guard of honour. The medium in the funeral was the message – a ruthless and clever paramilitary leader was commemorated as if he was a matinee idol in an old movie. Not even his enemies would challenge Bobby Storey’s personal courage as a warrior – or his commitment to an extremely violent and questionable cause. Nor could anyone deny that Nationalists and Republicans were routinely discriminated against in…

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