Following a four and a half hour train journey speeding through the very gorgeous and green Great British countryside (SO many lambs!) I arrived at the ACT Annual Conference 2014 in Glasgow in good spirits. Clearly the conference organisers knew this would be the case, as they kept the good times rolling with an opening double bill of plenary speakers that were both entertaining and thought provoking.

I'm not sure I'd have ever described the Right Honourable Alistair Darling M...