Gordon’s World

Also in The Times today (pay wall), Hugo Rifkind on Gordon Brown’s evidence to the Leveson inquiry yesterday:

In Gordon’s world, papers decided they fancied a Tory government and then went hunting for stories about him throwing mobile phones at people. As though there were stories about simply everybody throwing phones at people, if you looked hard enough, but the Murdochs, Rothermeres and Barclays had just decreed that the ones about David Cameron ought to be hushed up.

Via Benedict Brogan’s Morning Briefing.

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• popskihaynes

  Dear John
  As I posted sometime ago against one of today’s Indy Editorials, your newspaper has missed a trick there, the “Great Gordo” was absolutely brilliant and worthy of an article. Trying to squeeze some “hidden meanings” from Osborne’s evidence seems a bit pathetic.

  To be honest and yes it may just be me, but has anything really startling come out of this “bondoogle of Leveson” yet ? Even the much anticipated “J Hunt on rack” was a damp affair revealing nothing and Cameron will be no better.

  It often seems to me that the public mood that requires all in public life to wear sackcloth and ashes, started with the “Expenses Scandal” but was really connected with a big sulk concerning the economy, Mr and Mrs Joe Public did not want to awoken from their slumbers: “You lied ! you lied !” – Tough Suckers !

  Still that is another story, the one on offer yesterday with that Colossus of New Labour should have been full reported by a left wing paper, surely ? 

• timberanddamp

  Did this pathetic excuse for a leader, and a man, ever really hold the top job in the land ? is this the person who presided over, and led us into the catastrophe that we are now all being subjected too ? he was so busy in his petulant schoolboy battle with Blair for power, he sold us all down the river, this Leveson inquiry is turning into the usual weak kneed cover up, that we have come to expect, all of the questions are premeditated and predictable, with the cross examination scripted, tailored, and diversionary, where are all the relevant questions regarding his role in the destruction of the UK economy ? as the previous Chancellor of the exchequer, and then the Prime Minister, where has his accountibillity for these actions gone ? more public school and old boys network obfuscation, he should be charged with total incompetency and fraud, I would suggest that he is not just blind in one eye, but in both, the same as the Leveson inquiry is turning out to be, I would not expect the J Rentoul to be anything else but gentle in his commentary, and posting, whats new ?

• Pacificweather

  Never mind moral hazard, just throw a phone and all will be well.

• JohnJustice

  As it happens in the country of the blind as the world was in 2008 the one-eyed man (i.e. Gordon Brown) was king. Not for nothing was he cast by Nobel winning and renowned economists, like Klugman, and Skidelsky, as the man who saved the world.

• timberanddamp

  Up Justice pops, like a Jack in the box, how tedious, and predictable, its a little like Mary had a little Lamb, Oh well at least its a constant in this unpredictable world.

• Kugelschreiber

  One’s child is such a PRECIOUS thing, to be cherished, protected.  There is no other love like that of a parent for their child.

  And if your precious child is ILL in some way, then you can suffer so much, because you care so much for them, it is SUCH a senstive & painful area, but one struggles on and tries to stay cheerful & make the best of things..

  I am so horrified that the TIMES’ sister paper the Sun (also owned by Murdoch)saw fit to SPREAD the suffering of an innocent child to the full view of the WORLD , of course I mean little Fraser, the child of Gordon Brown & his wife.

  Those who either write or authorise such reports are not FIT to inhabit the SEWERS of HELL in my opinion.

  REGARDLESS of the source of this PRIVATE information, it was the RESPONSIBILITY & the CHOICE of the Sun whether to publish or not.

  I’m an ordinary, quietly living member of the public, but I have detested Murdoch & his newspapers for at least 30 years.

• Kugelschreiber

  The Times is owned by the evil Murdoch & his gang isn’t it?  I would rather go to Hell than read any paper of his or anything overseen by the vile McKenzie or Brooks or their fellows, it would probably be a nicer, kinder, more human,  more moral experience.

• JohnJustice

  Funny kind of sock puppet, sticking up for Brown when he is not exactly JR’s favourite person.