Damian Thompson’s excellent blog has a thought provoking juxtapostion. I think some of the best politicians (such as Dennis Healey) simply had the bad luck to be at their peak in the 1970s and so their reputations will always be sullied.
Gordon Brown is a one man seventies throw back. Chris Mole on the other hand with the beard, the carefully hidden public school education (Dulwich College in case you’re asking), the middle class trade union background, the attempts to be prolier than thou….
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