This week’s theatrics from Belfast - where the DUP, a party that never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, finally signed a deal that was more or less on the table in 2017 - underpins the bedlam of the Brexit beginning. Photograph: Mark Marlow/EPA In November 1942, Europe was in dire need of a bit of good news. It came from Egypt, where after three years of defeats, retreats, setbacks and Nazi atrocities, the British army notched up its first victory of the second World War against Rommel’s Afrika Corps. When Winston Churchill was asked to put the battle...