Matthew Parris wrote a piece for Saturday’s Times which expresses the hope that we may be about to see the end of managerial politics
“No more devoted follower of the blinkered cult has arisen than our present Prime Minister” he said.
Which reminded me again of the Auden poem, the last lines of which now seem to offer another clue to the Brown psychology
There has been much comment recently on his apparent inability to proffer the slightest apology for his role in what has happened to the economy
I am not actually an advocate of prime ministerial apologies – which reached their nadir when the last one apologised for the Irish Famine
But is it possible that Gordon Brown thinks that we might start feeling sorry for him, were he to apologise?
And that that is the idea which he really cannot stand
