The Mark Thompson Story, from
This is of course the Mark Thompson who is the Director-General of the BBC. My predecessor in my current job was also called Mark Thompson but as far as I know he has never bitten anyone.
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The only potential UUP leader in recent history who I think could have garnered some Catholic support was Ken Maginnis, though David Trimble grew on me personally after he shifted away from the triumphalism expressed in his jig with Paisley at the end of the Drumcree March in 95 and put his full efforts into the Peace Process.
“The second problem is that the UUP’s failure to run Catholic candidates, though embarrassingly visible, was much the least of its problems”
Of course, there’s also the problem that Catholic candidate would face a far larger threat, both to themselves and their families, from some in the Nationalist and Republican communities.