The Big Question This Morning.

[sandyRoe]

Who was the opinionated Ulsterman who held trenchant views on talking with terrorists?

[ichkeria]

Just for you sandy I "iPlayered" it and it was one David Vance, author of this book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unionism-Decayed-1997-David-Vance/dp/1434364712

I won't comment on the book's subject as we are not near the watershed :-)

[sandyRoe]

TY, Ichkeria.
He seems to have been cast from the same mould as Avro Manhattan, another writer who believed that the Irish troubles were the direct result of a conspiracy berween the Kremlin and the Vatican.

[ichkeria]

He does appear by comparison to make Jim Allister look like a bit of a reckless appeaser :-)