So once again we have the sight of the last surrendering Japanese World War Two soldier, finally wandering out of the jungle, waving his sword. Seemingly the DUP have been doomed by history to be a sort of perpetual full stop, the historical coda after everybody else has moved on. Two years ago, in the assembly election in the North, the Unionists lost their political majority for the first time ever. Because the Assembly has not been sitting, that fact has had little visibility. But as the officials sat down in both Brussels and London this week to design a…

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