editorial cartoons

If anybody needs a break it's Gordon Brown. All politicians now have to be greener-than-thou, so he dutifully takes off on a rather dour holiday in the Suffolk "riviera". He tries his best to look like a comfortable-in-his-skin-typa-guy for the phalanx of cameras, but looks like he's suffering a particuarly painful rectal scan. He has recently accepted a comparison with the Heathcliff of romantic fiction. You can't help thinking he'd be happier striding the windswept moors to inflame his boiling bitterness. But even there, I suspect his plotters would menace him. Chief among these is the "Blairites' poster boy" David Miliband, although he hasn't yet shed the sheep's clothing to reveal the wolf within.

unpublished

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