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Brown
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Perfect book for April Fools Day: 300 pages of Gordon Brown's speeches
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No, it's true. It really isn't an April Fools day joke. It's the day we've all been waiting for. My publishers ( Random Hous...
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What's 'news' about Gordon Brown not answering a question?
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The silly season doesn’t get much sillier than when the leading story on all of tonight’s leading news programmes on radio and television ...
How many numbers can you get into a minute?
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A few months ago, I made the point that Gordon Brown tends to pack far too much information into his speeches and still has to take notice o...
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Clarke has more to say about Brown than a few weeks ago
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In the wake of Labour's loss of the Norwich North by-election, it looks as though former Home Secretary Charles Clarke is less reluctant...
More standup comedy from Gordon Brown
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The story about Ronald Reagan that Gordon Brown told at the TED conference the other day wasn’t the only one that got a laugh from the audie...
Standing ovation for Gordon Brown after anecdotes about Reagan, Cicero and Demosthenes
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A couple of days ago, Gordon Brown took time out from local problems, like today’s by-election, to make a surprise appearance at the TED Gl...
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Gordon Brown's tough decisions and/or rehearsal for defeat
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In case you missed Gordon Brown’s last press conference before the Summer recess, here’s the ‘Top Story’ on the No 10 website today: Governm...
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'Sound-formed errors' and humour
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Last December , I suggested that Gordon Brown’s gaffe when he said that he’d saved the world was probably the result of what Gail Jefferso...
Lord Mandelspin strikes again
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The bloggers' verdict on this morning's interview of Peter Mandelson by Andrew Marr seems to be that the former ran rings around the...
Gordon Brown’s honesty about the death of New Labour
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The Prime Minister’s press conference yesterday has aroused much media comment about the gap between his declaration of paternally derived...
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Pre-delicate hitches from the White House
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The delicate nature of some recent news stories seems to have produced a deluge of ‘pre-delicate hitches’ (for more on which, see HERE ). ...
How would Obama's rhetoric and oratory sound from a London back street?
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With pageants like the annual trooping the colour and state opening of parliament by the Queen, occasional royal weddings, state funerals an...
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