Brown’s media management

When John Major was at his most paranoid, he used to have every edition of the Evening Standard brought to him by a flunky in his study – whereupon he would jab at the page and blame specific colleagues for specific leaks. In his final months, Iain Duncan Smith acquired a similar habit, saying to Tory frontbenchers: “I see you got a good write up on page 23, paragraph four” – or words to that effect. So this interesting piece on Gordon and the press does not inspire confidence.