Reading out an extract, Alastair said: “You said that there are two types of crazy people, there are crazy people who are just dangerous, and there are crazy people who are creative and give you energy and ideas, and that’s Alastair’s type of craziness.”
Addressing his former colleague, he quizzed: “Do you accept that’s a tad stereotyping of mental health?”
“Yes,” Blair replied, “but it’s probably better than if I’d put you in the former category.”
He continued: “I am afraid I am of an age where I am now terrified if I can talk about any of these subjects that I am going to say something that I should not say.”
