Well, what do you know? There’s a crisis in Burma. To whom can we turn? Someone brave, strong, fresh, a man of influence, buoyed by popular mandate.
Sarkozy?
Er, no. I mention this because it is highlighted as the number one story on the BBC World News website at present. It’s the same sort of puffery they gave to Blair in his early days (years, in his case), where the British PM is seen being sought for his input by the great and good- and indeed is seen as the front man for the international community. The spin (yes, spin!) operation on Brown has been sickening enough, given the frankly old government trade that he is- the BBC seem to be losing no opportunity to cooperate in raising his profile on the world stage.
Funny that when Northern Rock was going down the pan the other wek McCavity couldn’t be seen anywhere.
And he’s not around when the BBC talk aobut Iraq or Afghanistan.
mind you, when was the last time you saw the BBC talk about Iraq?
Newsnight did an Iraq special on 25 September.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/iraq/default.stm