27: Feargal Sharkey: Teenage Kicks, Bobby Sands, and saving our rivers
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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The Black Armbands of Bobby Sands
Some of the band were wearing black armbands. I wasn't but some of the band did. Why did you not? This is one of the most iconic developments within the whole piece, well, the whole troubles was this Bobby Sands hunger strike. So it's true and it's part of where politics fails and it brings us back to Westminster. Is it divisive? Is it an affront to democracy in the modern world that there is not an assembly in Northern Ireland? Yes, there is. That is a outrageous situation and it's one that needs to be resolved. But I might add, Alistair, if you haven't seen It should be compulsory viewing for every single politician
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