16: Tony Blair: Taking insults, swallowing pride, and negotiating with both sides
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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The Unionism of Ian Paisley
I remember very vividly at the end of the 1960s and the tone of the correspondence that we would have with our relatives in Ireland changed from, you know, everyone gets along to these people are our enemy. And I made a big impact on this. One of the figures that I'm fascinated by is Captain O'Neill, who was the leader in the 63 onwards. He's often looks in retrospect as though he was trying to do the right thing. Yet it was under his watch that actually everything went terribly wrong. There are a lot of lessons in political leadership in this.
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