Brown’s PR people should rein him in

Gordon Brown has written in the literary anthology Wow 366 that he had a boyhood fascination with Antarctic explorers such as Captain Scott.  It surely won’t be long before the cogs start whirring for commentators (in fact it’s already started) on the similarities between Brown’s premiership and Scott’s Antarctic expedition, which ended in his – and his whole party’s – deaths.

Brown really doesn’t do himself many favours by proudly telling us his fascination with doomed figures – or how he most identifies with the (questionable) character of Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights.  Like it or not we live in an age of spin.  It must be hard to spin this PM when he so unthinkingly sets himself up as a subject for satire.