One of the strangest stories from Northern Ireland

Sometimes we think it's a sign that we're getting old that we have a good memory of various events in Northern Ireland from the 1970s, but we either forgot, or never knew the astonishing story recounted by Walter Ellis in today's Sunday Times of London: how his 2nd cousin once-removed, Ronnie Bunting, evolved from a hardline Ulster Unionist family to leading lethal republican socialist terrorism, including the assassination of Airey Neave. It's impossible to do justice to Ellis's story without reading it it full, so we strongly recommend that you do.