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An apology for a prime minister
Gordon Brown, we learn today, is to apologise to the children who were sent to Australia over several decades to "begin new lives" - many of whom were mistreated, some of whom had living parents who were not consulted, or even informed. No doubt it ...
One mother\'s son
As Beowulf knew, there are few creatures more dangerous than an angry, grieving mother. Jacqui Janes, unsatisfied that the prime minister - a busy man, presumably - took the time to speak to her personally to apologise for the bad handwriting and sp...
Brown and out in Afghanistan
There was a gaping contradiction at the heart of Gordon Brown's speech on Afghanistan, which he gave this morning, at short notice, to the Royal College of Defence Studies. He had two messages to deliver, one for us, the other for the Karzai governm...
Votes at Sixteen?
At Prime Minister's Question Time this lunchtime, Gordon Brown expressed his support for the idea of lowering the voting age to 16. This idea has been gaining quite a bit of traction on the Left, supposedly as a way of encouraging young people to "p...
Don't just blame Gordon
Madeleine Bunting writes a lot of nonsense, usually, but she has one thing right today. There's something rather off-putting about the current open season on Gordon Brown:I've no appetite right now to join what increasingly sounds like a mob lynchin...
An elegaic couplet
That was the change we chose // change that benefits the hardworking majority and not just a privileged fewCatullus would have been proud. © 2009 Heresy Corner, all rights reserved. ...
Gordon Brown stealing BNP clothes again?
Yesterday, the BNP issued a cheeky press release drawing attention to Labour's kleptomaniac tendencies:The British National Party has started moves to copyright its political slogans after the Labour Party stole the BNP-origin term “Operation Fight...
Polly\'s fantasy Gordon
As Gordon Brown is greeted in Brighton with what one BBC reporter delightfully described as "a carefully rehearsed ecstatic welcome", Polly Toynbee has written his resignation speech for him. The short version is, "I'm brilliant: that's why I have to...
A post seething with impotent rage
Do you remember the Maxwell pensioners? They were perfectly blameless employees of the Mirror group and other businesses controlled by a fat con-man, originally from Czechoslovakia, named Robert Maxwell, who fell off a yacht in mysterious circumstan...
A Job Advertisement
Captain wanted for sinking shipWhite Star Lines is pleased to announce a vacancy for the post of Captain of the SS Titanic, currently experiencing difficult conditions in the North Atlantic Ocean.This prestigious appointment - leading the crew and sa...
The Sun sets on Afghanistan
Will it be the Sun what lost it?The paper's new editor, Dominic Mohan, has splashed with a picture spread of the 207 British casualties in Afghanistan and the headline Don't You Know There's A Bloody War On.In what amounts to a thousand word editoria...
Where's Gordon?
Thirty years ago, I gather, the country was engrossed in a search for a jewelled rabbit that an enterprising artist had hidden in a field somewhere. The clues were hidden amongst the illustrations of a lavishly produced book, with such devilish cunn...
A secret Inquiry
Gordon Brown has been broadly, and I think rightly, criticised for his decision to hold the belated inquiry into the Iraq War in private. It strikes me as being, above all, politically misjudged. Whatever the inquiry concludes, and however deeply a...
How Brown saved Britain?
In the Observer, Will Hutton has a love-in with Gordon Brown's favourite economist, Paul Krugman. Krugman argues that the political crisis in Britain is "bizarre" on account of Brown's brilliant handling of the economy. No, really. He thinks that ...
Brown and out
From Lord "Charlie" Falconer, who has, to no-one's surprise, come out this lunchtime and called for Brown to fall on his dagger:We need unity above all. Can we get unity under the current leadership? I am not sure that we can and we need to debate it...
That Caroline Flint resignation letter in full
"Dear" Gordon,When you asked me to join your government, you told me I was special, that I would be one of your inner circle, that I mattered. That I would be attending Cabinet, like, every week. I felt like the luckiest girl in the whole world. B...
A bad day to bury good news
With Jacqui Smith quitting the Cabinet, yesterday ought to have been a good news day for Gordon Brown. After all, here was an unpopular and, by general consent, fairly useless home secretary, even before her headline-grabbing involvement in the expe...
Final Journey
I noticed this teaser on the Times website.Judging by the ex Lord Chancellor's ambiguous comments on Today this morning, he may well be thinking of a particular candidate for assisted suicide. © 2009 Heresy Corner, all rights reserved. ...
