The Guardian and Observer newspapers are on a mission to humanise the robotic Gordon Blair Brown ahead of his coronation as Labour leader, and to that end this is the photo on the masthead of The Observer this morning: tell me, non-UKians, is this a face that inspires trust?
Was that really the best they could find to illustrate the new touchy-feely, smiley Gordon? Looks more like a scary uncle with mad starting eyes and wandering hands to me. If he offers you sweets say “no, my mummy told me not to talk to weirdos”.
UPDATE: Can’t believe I let ‘Gordon Blair’ sit up there all day. It’s that one mad staring Blair eye, it seems to be carrying on to Brown. No doubt it’ll be bequeathed to young Milliband in due course as well.
