He had the right to decide what he decided.

What we're not used to is as soon as a court case finishes, do you get the full judgment? 59 pages from Mr Justice Schofield.

If he's watching or listening, we thank him for it.

It makes our job a lot easier.

Also, perhaps one sentence summed up all 59 pages.

He said, although the series of decisions made by the Secretary of State were complex, there was nothing unlawful or irrational about the way in which he resolved the issues before him.

Judges being judges, he did go into a bit more detail.

So let's talk about what was said around Sir Chris Bryant and the decision he came to.

You've been at every major event in Geoffrey Donaldson's public life, and I think it's fair to say that you had built up quite a strong relationship with him over the years as a political contact, and he was in touch with you at very pivotal moments in his career.

Yes, maybe most significantly, I was the journalist that he rang on Good Friday in 1998, just after, only minutes after he walked out of the Good Friday agreement talks.

And it didn't start a relationship.

We knew each other because we had both been involved in political circles as such.

Me as a political correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph and then at the BBC by 1998.

So yeah, we would have had coffees.

We would have met the odd time for lunch.

And then all of a sudden everything comes crashing down.