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• Its not just the Sun wholl be nasty | Charlie Beckett

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 154
  As Jacqui Janes tapes her conversation with Gordon Brown, its clear politicians are heading for asymmetric war with the public The Sun is certainly out to get its former friend Gordon Brown , to the extent that it has published a deeply awkward private telephone conversation between the prime minister and the ...
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• The Sun turns Gordon Brown into an object of sympathy, not scorn

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 814
  The Sun has pulled off the seemingly impossible – it has generated widespread sympathy for the Prime Minister. Hard to believe, I know. But Gordon Brown has emerged from the saga of the sloppy condolence letter and the follow-up phone call not as some caricature panto villain but as a decent man with the right ...
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• An inability to admit mistakes

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 148
  Listen to The Suns recording of Gordon Browns telephone conversation with Mrs Janes and how he just cannot admit his mistake in spelling Janes as James. Gordon Brown even in this conversation just keeps blundering on repeating his chosen line that he had no intention to cause upset without realising that if he had ...
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• Sombre Brown

  
  Today in Politics — Authority: 459
  A very sombre Gordon Brown on display at his Downing Street press conference this morning, the first of these once-monthly events since July. Inevitably, it was dominated by Afghanistan. He wore a black tie and it felt a bit odd when he spoke slowly and deliberately about the NHS too. He brought the presser to an ...
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• Extracts: Gordon Browns phone call to Jacqui Janes

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Excerpts from the Suns transcript of prime ministers conversation with mother of soldier killed in Afghanistan Jacqui Janes: The letter that you wrote to me, Mr Brown ... Gordon Brown: Yes ... JJ: I dont want to sound disrespectful here, but it was an insult to my child. There was 25 spelling mistakes – 25. ...
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• Gordon Brown: David Miliband was never a candidate for EU foreign role

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Prime minister reiterates his support for Tony Blair as European president Gordon Brown said today that David Miliband "was never a candidate" for the post of EU foreign minister. The prime minister appeared to confirm reports that his foreign secretary had no intention of taking the new EU post of high ...
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• Brown: I feel for Jacqui Janess grief

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  PM says he understands pain of mother to whom he wrote controversial letter after her son died in Afghanistan Gordon Brown today said he felt for the grieving mother who criticised him over a letter of condolence he sent after her son died in Afghanistan. The prime minister, who described himself as a "shy person", ...
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• Gold update

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 148
  I note that the BBC are now showing two figures for the gold price each day: Forex Gold Index(am fix) and Forex Gold Index(pm fix) $/oz. With the Financial Times reporting yesterday that "Market expectations for inflation in the US and UK have reached their highest levels since late last year..." I can only see an ...
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• Mavis Beacon Gordon Brown Teaches Typing...

  
  Ambush Predator — Authority: 546
  So, it seems the blogosphere is divided over the affair of the letter. In the Hes being maligned by the Sun for political purposes camp sit LfaT , Longrider and Mr E . In the This behaviour is inexcusable in a Head of State camp sit Constantly Furious , Obo and Anna Raccoon . Me? I think its possible to ...
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• Global Bubbles: The Geithner-Brown Split

  
  The Baseline Scenario — Authority: 705
  There are two broad views on our newly resurgent global bubbles – the increase in asset prices in emerging markets, fuelled by capital inflows, with all the associated bells and whistles (including dollar depreciation).  These run-ups in stock market values and real estate prices are either benign or the ...
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• Brown deserves praise, not condemnation

  
  JamesCousins.com — Authority: 471
  There are many things for which I would criticise the Prime Minister. Having bad hand-writing because he is half-blind and making some spelling mistakes are not on that list. That he has was a story that, at first, I let pass me by. But the more I have thought about it the more distasteful I have found The Sun ...
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• Newspaper Round-Up Tuesday November 10th

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 569
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• Where the power is – or was

  
  hackcartoonsdiary.com — Authority: 119
  The Jacqui Janes – Gordon Brown Sun newspaper sponsored row rumbles on (link from the Telegraph.) Above is a cartoon featuring the old BBC Test Card and which is about the context in which the current debate is taking place. Below, is something short written in the summer of 2009. Before Digital Britain ...
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• Rupert Murdoch: I regret my papers anti-Gordon Brown stance

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch says prime minister is a friend, but his government has been a disappointment Greenslade: the Sun declares war on Brown Rupert Murdoch has said he regrets that his papers have turned against prime minister Gordon Brown – but believes they are right to do so. The chairman and chief ...
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• News values in question

  
  Next Left — Authority: 659
  Former Sun political editor George Pascoe-Watson told MediaGuardian yesterday he was "born with a Sun hat on ... I dont think you could really do politics for the Sun without instinctively feeling it in your gut". But, as John Rentoul reports , Pascoe-Watsons gut instinct appears to be that The Suns attack on the ...
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• Browns press conference as it happened

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Minute-by-minute coverage of the prime ministers meeting with the media from 10am 9.43am: They used to call them monthly press conferences. Now, on the Downing Street website, theyve become "regular" press conferences. The last one was in July. Gordon Brown has held press conferences since then, but they have ...
  6 hours ago

• A letter to Gordon

  
  Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! — Authority: 132
  Dear Prime Minister…. I thought I mite take the time to rite to you and let you no what I have been up to this morning. Before I walked my children to school I collected my email, all 92 messages since yesterday, and they included lots of comments from my new photoblog , as well as notifications that I had ...
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• Analysis: Gordon Browns telephone call to Jacqui Janes | Andrew Sparrow

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Five key reasons why the recording matters As Norman Smith said on BBC Radio 4s Today programme, there are certain encounters between politicians and "real people" that grip the public imagination. One came when Diana Gould interrogated Margaret Thatcher over the sinking of the Belgrano . Another happened when ...
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• Sun man backs the Indy

  
  John Rentoul — Authority: 575
  Charlie Whelan, Gordon Browns (not-quite-ex) spokesman, has just been on BBC Radio 5 Live and I agreed with every word he said about The Sun s personal campaign against the Prime Minister for having handwritten a letter of condolence to the mother of a soldier. What was really surprising, though, was that ...
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• Roy Greenslade: The Sun declares war on the prime minister

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 139
  Last week I ran a posting headlined A newspaper lesson for Gordon Brown - Murdoch is not your friend . I argued that the prime minister was fooling himself if he thought the News Corporation chairman was still his mate after agreeing that The Sun should back the Tories. Well, after the handwriting saga, there ...
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