The Good Gordon Brown

Marbury is quite right. The Prime Minister’s advisers must wonder what they have to do to get this Gordon Brown appearing on your TV screen. Now, there are a few things one could say about the content of Brown’s Ted Talk in Oxford but that’s a post for another time. But in general, this is good stuff: fluent, passionate, witty (yes, really) and so on. Above all, freed from the tedium and trivia and trauma of life at Westminster you see a different and relaxed big-picture Gordon. It’s almost enough to make one wonder what might have happened if only Gordon weren’t quite so bad at politics…

Anyway, this is worth your time. There’s a good, if probably apocryphal, Reagan joke too.