BTW, I don’t know who the ‘editor’ is who could only count up to three of Gordon Brown’s four points. Perhaps I’m seeing double, but there seemed to me to be four there, loud and clear. (I agree that Mr Broon’s commitment to Africa is estimable, but less firmly convinced that this virtue outweighs all his countervailing defects, including his apparent timidity and reluctance to adopt even faintly controversial policies, his inability to make decisions and stick to them, and his inexplicably obstinate refusal to abandon or reverse even the most obviously perverse and indefensible commitments of his predecessor: ID cards, 42 days, aircraft carriers and fighter aircraft, Trident, ballooning Olympic budget, public/private partnership financing, Uriah Heep-like deference to Murdoch and the Daily Mail, continued privatisation of the railway companies, leaving troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to no observable purpose, inability to carry our semi-federal devolution constitution through to its logical conclusion of a fully federated UK — or even to complete reform of the House of Lords, frigid attitudes to the EU, and contempt for the views of his own party’s rank and file, the indispensable foot-soldiers for fighting elections (to name just a few elements in the toxic detritus of New Labour). But all this is tending to drift away from your sound point about Africa and development. Sorry!)

Brian
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DK

Aside from that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?

Still, I agree with the point.