Tuesday, June 02, 2009

When Governments Fall Apart

I've just noticed - living in Britain these days is like being in Petrograd in February 1917.

Private Eye got it wrong: Gordon Brown is not like Stalin, a real strong man who hung on until he died, but more like the Tsar Nicholas - a much weaker ruler man who kept rushing around thinking he was still in control as power simply ebbed away.

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