Democracy and Responsibility: A lesson from Germany. | Sir David Lidington | TEDxHabs Elstree Youth

It was um February 1990. Day was a bit like this. cold, clear, sunny, and I was sitting in the back of a minibus that was driving eastwards from Berlin towards the Polish border.It was about 4 months after the Berlin Wall had come down. Less than that since the Velvet Revolutions had erupted throughout central Europe, overturning half a century of Soviet rule. We were seeing the first stirrings of a renewed push for independence from the three Baltic republics.And I was there as one member of a British obse ...