{"id":405297,"date":"2025-09-07T13:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405297\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T13:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:12:18","slug":"if-david-trimble-really-was-autistic-it-makes-his-record-even-more-remarkable-sam-mcbride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405297\/","title":{"rendered":"If David Trimble really was autistic, it makes his record even more remarkable &#8211; Sam McBride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Politician\u2019s rise shows how much society can gain from neurodivergent minds\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Something in David Trimble\u2019s makeup enabled him to brush off crisis after crisis that would have crushed almost any other leader\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/23d09832-1264-41d4-b0c6-8092de1ad025.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Something in David Trimble\u2019s makeup enabled him to brush off crisis after crisis that would have crushed almost any other leader<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Late Northern Ireland first minister David Trimble \u00adbelieved he was probably \u00adautistic \u2014 and some of his closest aides agreed, according to a new biography of the former unionist leader published this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Former BBC journalist Stephen Walker\u2019s book, David Trimble: Peacemaker, reports cautiously and sensitively on something that has long been privately suggested in \u00adpolitical circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Politician\u2019s rise shows how much society can gain from neurodivergent minds Something in David Trimble\u2019s makeup enabled him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[69799,1144,6410,16,15719,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-405297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-david-trimble","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-sam-mcbride","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-ulster-unionist-party","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115163191342905767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}