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    Secrets and lies: Martin Sixsmith on the trail of a boy ripped from his mother
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    "You can take the cynical view of ministers," Sixsmith reflects, "that they are only interested in themselves, or you can take the view that they do actually want to make changes that benefit people. Some are in the first category and some in the second. Alistair Darling is undoubtedly in the second. He is the absolute epitome of a Presbyterian Scottish bank manager whose head is not turned by power." And the first category? Full Article at The Independent
    that they are only interested in themselves, or you can take the view that they do actually want to make changes that benefit people. Some are in the first category and some in the second. Alistair Darling is undoubtedly in the second. He is the absolute epitome of a Presbyterian Scottish bank manager whose head is not turned by power.
    SOURCE: The Independent 2 months ago
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Secrets and lies: Martin Sixsmith on the trail of a boy ripped from his mother
  1. It was grand guignol really
    SOURCE: The Independent 2 months ago
  2. That might be stretching it a bit
    SOURCE: The Independent 2 months ago
  3. You can take the cynical view of ministers
    SOURCE: The Independent 2 months ago
  4. That New Year's party ... was a small example of chance intervening. The book itself tells a story with a much bigger example of the same thing.
    SOURCE: The Independent 2 months ago
  5. that Philomena would be upset when we found out about Michael being gay, but she wasn't. She's remarkably unbitter about things. If it had happened to me I would bear remarkable bitterness in the depths of my heart about the people who had treated me that way, but she doesn't. She stopped going to Mass ...
    SOURCE: The Independent 2 months ago
  6. It was one of those coincidences that nudge and deflect our life trajectory
    SOURCE: The Independent 2 months ago
  7. I regretted it for about six months, when the government was insisting I was wrong and they were right. [In 2002, the Transport Secretary Stephen Byers announced that both Sixsmith and Jo Moore had resigned, but Sixsmith contradicted this and said that his exit had been forced.] That was a tough time, b...
    SOURCE: The Independent 2 months ago
  8. You mustn't blame yourself
    SOURCE: The Independent 2 months ago
  9. I was in civil service. Alastair Campbell and Jo Moore and all these special advisers were there to promote their ministers. They were on the other side.
    SOURCE: The Independent 2 months ago
  10. Everything in it is so exaggerated that it becomes innately ridiculous and unbelievable, but always with that sense that actually this was the way things were.
    SOURCE: The Independent 2 months ago

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