I find Miliband’s fridge and its contents more interesting than the Foreign Secretary
Did you see David Miliband’s fridge? It was massive. I saw it in a photograph in a Times magazine article about the brainy young Foreign Secretary. The pictures were intended to illustrate the would-be Prime Minister’s human side, but the fridge was more interesting than the man: probably the first case in history of a Cabinet minister being upstaged by a refrigerator.
There was also a bewildering picture of Mr Miliband wearing loafers without socks. One sees the case for a shoes-and-socks combination. One sees the case for socks and no shoes. One sees the case for discarding both shoes and socks and being photographed barefoot. But where is the case for bare feet clad in shoes? Is Miliband triangulating? Is the subliminal message ‘human, but not too human’?
We all need a human side.
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