The Spectator

Another Colgate Moment?

George W. Bush and Tony Blair famously bonded over their mutual use of Colgate toothpaste at their first meeting at Camp David. With Gordon Brown heading there this weekend, one can’t help but wonder which product he and Bush have in common? Anyone have any ideas?

One thing we can be confident of, though, is that Brown won’t turn up in—what Christopher Meyer so memorably described as—“ball-crushingly tight dark-blue courdroys.”

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