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I have always had an independent streak, never studious or academic but always interested in ideas, outsiders and the underdog. My housemaster at school often referred to my ‘Celtic temperament’ usually after more trouble with authority figures, be that teachers, prefects or some other version of autocrat. I now consider his description a compliment. My nature has led me down a wonderful and interesting path through life, I recently found my first adult passport and taped in the back was a tiny cutting which reads ‘During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take...