As a Lib Dem, I often found myself disagreeing with him – sometimes in person, catching a word with him as he snatched a fag outside a policy committee meeting – but I identified with him, as a human being in the Westminster quagmire, as so many people did.
The Liberal Democrats admitted the Commons statement, supported by the civil service, was a constitutional innovation, but said it was legitimate for the party to agree with the Tories about specific budget measures, while disagreeing about fiscal plans into the next parliament.
The talks are progressing slowly, with countries still disagreeing over issues such as finance from developed to poor countries, helping them cut emissions and adapt to climate change, and the wording of the final text.
Yet even here, there was recently a seminal statement from Najaf by the Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, the most influential Shia cleric in Iraq, proclaiming the need for a civil, not religious state, in which all people had equal freedom to participate and disagreeing with those close to Iran who want Shia to go to Syria to fight for Assad alongside Hezbollah.
A research project by Policy Exchange, the prime minister's favourite think-tank, found voters disagreeing that Britain is a meritocracy by 74% to 21%.Gloom also stokes the unusually intense rage over immigration.
He "sees no value in independent directors disagreeing with him," according to one insider.
You can be pretty sure that on the day some catastrophe forces mankind to flee planet Earth and colonise the moon, Orthodox clergy will be studying the church canons to see who has primacy on lunar soil and disagreeing.
Richard Dawkins, a British atheist intellectual, is another Ghazali-basher.In modern Europe, people have been disagreeing about al-Ghazali for a couple of centuries.
In it was the usual hectoring: urging the KMT to oppose Taiwanese independence, increase dialogue and stand by the "1992 consensus", in which both China and Taiwan agreed to the idea of "one China" (while disagreeing on what that meant).
Mr Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, recently quit the board after disagreeing with management and bondholders.
