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This newspaper’s former media commentator should have been transparent about his sympathies
Alan Rusbridger was editor of the Guardian from 1995 to 2015
One of the strangest encounters of my life took place in the basement of an anonymous office block just behind Buckingham Palace in London. There was a big state dinner that evening and the area was stiff with security. Did any of the police notice two well-known terror leaders slip through a doorway?
Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, both key figures in the Irish republican moment, had been bidden to the meeting by a former MI6 officer. Let’s call him James. James had been closely involved in the development of the peace process in Northern Ireland and had established a relationship of trust with McGuinness. Continue reading...