Tag Archives: Gordon Brown

Why We Still Love The People’s Premiere

In that autobiography you may possibly have noticed former British PM Tony Blair is currently touting, the one called ‘A Journey’ (a title that masterfully captures the sublimely faux modesty of its subject), Blair compares himself to Princess Di. ‘“We were both, in our own way, manipulators” — good at grasping the feelings of others …

September 2, 2010 – 7:06 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, politics | Tagged , , , | Comments (14)

Dave’s Posh Skin, Nick’s Cute Hair, and Gordon’s Bleached Rictus

by Mark Simpson It’s difficult not to feel a little sorry for Gordon Brown. Even if you really don’t want to. I mean, imagine spending over a decade trying to wrest the leadership of the Labour Party — and the UK — from that insufferably posh boy Tony Blair and when you finally succeed the global …

April 30, 2010 – 4:00 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , | Comments (8)

Oh Do Stop Nailing Blair to the Cross: He Enjoys It

Tony Blair’s Jesus Christ Sings Edith Piaf performance yesterday at The Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, giving testimony at the Chilcot enquiry into Britain’s involvement in the Iraq War, disappointed a lot of people who hoped he would get nailed, or at least express a few regrets. I’m not one of them.  Now, I enjoy a …

January 30, 2010 – 11:09 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (15)

Queer Eye of the Tory Guy Headed For Number 10

After yesterday’s disastrous Nantwich by-election defeat for Gordon Brown by David Cameron’s resurgent, re-branded, made-over, moisturised Tories, which came hard on the heels of the drubbing the Brown One received a few weeks ago in the English local council elections, the media — and a substantial part of the Labour Party itself — is now …

May 23, 2008 – 11:14 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Gordon Who?

Excuse me, but who is our Prime Minister? No, really, who is he? Yesterday I saw a dour looking Scottish geezer who looked like he’d spent too long working in the basement of a bank give a painfully awkward speech outside Number 10 about the changing need for change and how he will try us to …

June 29, 2007 – 6:12 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in politics | Tagged , | Comments (3)

Dame Democracy is a Size Queen

This week British PM Tony Blair is finally handing over the reins of Government to former Chancellor Gordon Brown’s ‘big clunking fists’. Despite what they say about what big fists mean (big surgical gloves), it remains to be seen what exactly is under our Scottish premier’s kilt. It won’t be until New Labour’s newly crowned …

June 26, 2007 – 3:42 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, commentary, journalism, politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Gordon Isn’t a Moron — But He’s a Terrible Liar

Gordon Brown, Labour’s leader-in-waiting, can’t win the next election. This week’s address to the Labour Party Conference might as well have been his speech conceding victory to David Cameron. Why is Gordie such a liability? Not because of the disdainful verdict of dodgy Newsnight focus groups, or his recent impatient unleashing of political-suicide bombers on …

September 28, 2006 – 2:11 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, politics | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)