Fergus Finlay is a former political activist and adviser to three governments, the former head of the children's charity Barnardos, a writer and a broadcaster.
I'm sorry, but unless our President knows something I don’t know (always a possibility!), he uttered some terrible rubbish last weekend. Some of it was really unworthy of a man who is regarded (and has described himself) as a public intellectual.
It pains me to say it. And I don’t want that to be interpreted as a suggestion that he has no right to speak.
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