It is past time that we paid tribute publicly to the active involvement and engagement of the current Bush Administration and Tony Blair's personal commitment to peace and prosperity within and between these islands. That is not said often enough. Because of the historical baggage, politicians are sometimes reluctant to praise a British Prime Minister but I grew up learning about the proactive involvement of another British Prime Minister, Gladstone, in the 1880s, who took initiatives that were bold and against the mainstream at that time in order to give Ireland, on a point of principle, its own parliamentary establishment.