" A minicab with a disagreeable old driver. He began to talk about the IRA – ‘The only way to deal with that lot is to line them up and shoot them,’ he maintained. For the first time in a long while I was driven to uncontrollable anger and found myself telling this man old enough to be my father that his solution was ridiculous, dangerous and didn’t solve anything. ‘That’s what we used to do in Malaysia,’ he went on doggedly, but he didn’t really have the courage of his own bigotry and I felt oddly embarrassed, not by what I said, but by showing up what was not aggression so much as ignorance. "

― Michael Palin , Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998