If somebody genuinely went on Nolan threatening to “mobilise thousands”, then condemn it. I certainly do. This situation needs less inflammatory rhetoric, not more. But spare me the selective outrage. For days Bryson and others have helped turn a dispute over 35 Orangemen into a huge communal confrontation, with increasingly inflammatory language about “mobs”, “Republicans”, surrender and who controls the streets. Then you’re shocked when people from outside Portadown decide to travel to Garvaghy Road in solidarity with the residents? That doesn’t justify unlawful behaviour by anybody. But words have consequences. You cannot continually wind up one community, portray the other as the enemy and raise the political temperature, then wash your hands of the reaction and declare everyone else the aggressors. Perhaps everyone with a microphone should start lowering the temperature rather than competing to see who can inflame it further.