This week’s funerals of the latest casualties has provoked an angry public debate about the war.
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Christopher Hitchens: Gordon is the problem
The main if not the sole “issue” with Britain’s Labour Party appears to be the self-love and the self-pity of a PM who hasn’t even won a contested leadership election within his own party.
Gordon Brown: No-one in the world should go hungry
The world must act now on our moral duty to eliminate hunger from the earth, writes British PM Gordon Brown in The Independent.
The long, soft, cuddly interview with Gordon Brown
His skin is “peachy and fresh”, his “stripy, liquorice allsort hair” shiny, he has cute children and would house No. 10 on a train if permitted. The British PM granted The Guardian a weekend interview. Times are tough.
Brown braces for Blair’s battle blunders
Gordon Brown has promised an “unprecedented” inquiry into the invasion of Iraq… to be held behind closed doors.
Guy Rundle: What Gordon Brown did next … implode
The bizarre decision to hold a secret Iraq war inquiry may be the end of Gordon Brown.
Guy Rundle: Europe post-politics is a Brown study
Gordon Brown appears to have retained his death-like grip on Number 10, but little else concrete has emerged from the European elections.
Blowback: sins of the British Empire hitting home
The collapsed British Empire’s 300-year plunder of the rest of the world is now coming home to roost, says George Monbiot.
Gordon Brown survives (for now): what the pundits say
Early this morning local time, British MPs offered the embattled British PM a reprieve. Pundits think it won’t last long.
Gordon Brown survives to fight another day
Gordon Brown faced off against rebel MPs in Committee Room 14 — and won.
Even Sarah Brown is on the nose
America and France’s First Ladies upped the glamour stakes in co-ordinated dresses of a similar hue, but Britain’s Sarah Brown opted for a frumpy green checked dress at D-Day remembrance day.
European elections: long, dark night of humiliation for Labour
From bad, to worse, to nadir for Gordon Brown. Writes Patrick Wintour: the European elections were “a dramatic night of unremitting gloom for Downing Street”. The Tories appear to have pulled more than 10 points ahead of Labour. In fact, Labour was trounced even by the EU-sceptics at Ukip.
Brown cops a beating in local elections
Let’s be clear who’s inflicted the real damage on Gordon Brown this weekend… the voters of Britain. In the local elections, they’ve given Labour a hammering, says Mark Austin.
Crikey Says: Britain v Australia: a tale of two MP scandals
Crikey is normally shy of the crass nationalism so readily found in the mainstream media. But for once, it’s worth pondering the effectiveness of the Australian political system…
So what now?
Daniel Finkelstein and Collin Phillips discuss what’s next for Brown, his supporters and detractors.
Labour faces a tough choice
British Labour must now choose between a disintegrating leader or the chaos of regicide, says Polly Toynbee.
The endgame is near for Brown
Even a strong leader would struggle to survive the mess in Britain — and Gordon Brown is not that.
Why we never joined the media’s Gordon Brown fan club
Far from being a brave warrior re-establishing the true Labour way after the cheesy aberration that was Tony Blair, Brown was absolutely central to the New Labour project, writes Rob Lyons.
Guy Rundle: British Labour deathwatch, part 559
The slow death of the entire British Labour Party of the UK continues apace, with the resignation of key ministers like Hazel Blears.
MPs call for Gordon Brown to quit
A letter has been circulating amongst UK Labour MPs calling for the resignation of Gordon Brown after Hazel Blears became the fourth MP to resign from the Cabinet in 24 hours.
Where did all go wrong for Gordon Brown?
In 2007, the papers were optimistic about British PM Gordon Brown. Nowadays all this praise and excitement reads like something from a parallel universe, writes Andy Beckett.
The end of the line for UK Labour?
The Thatcherite-lite experiment that began with Tony Blair has well and truly outstayed its welcome. The poor, as always, will continue to suffer.
Guy Rundle: Putting Gordon Brown in a room with Susan Boyle
God I’m glad I’m not in Britain at the moment. If I woke tomorrow and found myself inexplicably in London I would get on the first Ryanair flight to Mogadishu, writes Guy Rundle.
New Labour takes U2 down with it
Bloated boom-era outfits U2 and New Labour have ploughed a parallel path to public irrelevancy, says John Harris.
