On a day when we remember the signing of the Good Friday Peace Agreement, it’s timely to be reminded of the words of Bill Clinton, when he was President of the United States. Speaking outside the Guildhall in Derry/Londerrry, Northern Ireland he said, “I see a peaceful city, a safe city, a hopeful city that’s full of young people that should have a peaceful and prosperous future. A future where their roots and roots and families are. That is what I see. And so I ask you, to build on the opportunity that you have before you. To believe that the future can be better than the past, to work together because you have so much more to gain by working together than by drifting apart. Have the patience to work for a just and lasting peace”. 
Last night the excellent Channel 4 ‘Derry Girls’ finished the present series with Clinton’s speech.
In an era of Brexit attrition and antagonism that divides people and nations, when it’s easy to forget that many conflicts and war stem from trade disputes and nations contending for self-interest, those words of Clinton are timely because, in the uncertain, hostile happenings of Brexit, the Good Friday Agreement is seemingly being ignored. His words, “you have so much more to gain by working together than by drifting apart” speaks volumes.