The discontent has been festering for a very long time, and just needed an event to set it off. Everything that has happened since July has just driven them mad.

The hope is that when this happens, Unionists will wake up and see that the threat really is gone and take a more balanced view.

Trouble has been brewing, but I don't think most people expected this. The pessimistic view is that this is an indication of just how deep the antagonisms are and how impossible it will be to get agreement.

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

The UK could face a digital winter of discontent during the run-up to the next general election.

Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor.