Anglo-Irish

To understand where they, Bannon, Musk, Miller, Peter Thiel and others are taking us, ponder a prophecy from 18th-century Anglo-Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith, which the late Tony Judt adapted for the title of his final book: "Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey/ Where wealth accumulates, and men decay."

Reading the work of the formerly famous Anglo-Irish historian William Edward Hartpole Lecky, in his day seen as one of the most eminent scholars of the Victorian age, is like taking a disorienting ride in an intellectual hot-tub time machine.

On 4 October the Anglo-Irish Secretariat in Belfast was informed that police had raided Sinn Féin's offices at Stormont and arrested four high-profile party employees, including the head of administration in the party's Stormont Office, Denis Donaldson.

Both parties emerged following a split in nationalist opinion over the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Ms Robinson explained Ms Sandes was born in Yorkshire and was the daughter of a "very well connected" Anglo-Irish vicar who became the Marlesford vicar and moved the family there.