Matthew Parris told Iain Dale…
“I think there was something very odd about Gordon Brown. It wasn’t an oddness that made him unfit for any useful role in public life but it certainly made him unfit for any central role as a communicator or explainer but more than that as a listener. He wasn’t a good listener, he wasn’t good at being honest about what the problems were. He seemed to have a difficulty with bad news that was more than the difficulty Tony Blair had, which was he didn’t want people to know it. Gordon didn’t seem to want to hear it himself.”
Querying Hague’s Advisor – Evening Standard
The Westminster Lunch Crunch – Total Politics
Baroness Ashton’s 100 £100k staffers – Telegraph
Double-Dip Predictions Round-Up – Speccie
AV: Yes Side is Staring at Defeat – Liberal Vision
Gay Intolerance Forces Catholic Care to Close – ASI Blog
Camerons Rent Out Notting Hill Home – ThisIsMoney
Ed Miliband Encouraged Kennedy Defection Rumours – Iain Dale
Steve Hilton’s Question – FT
Stop the Graduate Tax Bullshit – Dizzy
National Debt is £4.8 Trillion – Mark Littlewood
“Spending Challenge” Website Ruse is a Nonsultation – Andrew Gilligan
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