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Diary

John O'Sullivan's diary: A grand reunion for the revolutionary class of '89

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28 June 2014

9:00 AM

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

I’m an old conference hand going back to the Tories’ annual get-together of 1958. My headmaster, an Irish Christian Brother of firm nationalist sympathies, almost certainly felt that attendance was an occasion of sin. But he relented to the extent of allowing me to skip Saturday morning sports for the prime ministerial rally.

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John O’Sullivan is director of the Danube Institute in Budapest.

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