A very good after-dinner speaker, in my experience. Yes, a classic ex-Communist neocon who never properly recanted his past, whether as the Communist Party’s enforcer in Stirling Students’ Union (with its large cash turnover) or well into adult life, all at the height of the Cold War. Yes, therefore, a warmonger and a significant danger to liberty.
But also pro-life up to a very considerable point, and a force for the Union both in Scotland and in Northern Ireland. He is spot on about the Human Rights Act. And who would not sympathise with anyone who reasonably felt robbed by the insistence that Gordon Brown was incomparable, and uniquely capable of being Prime Minister? At any level, claims of that kind are always wrong, and believing them enough to act on them always ends in tears.
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