Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- April 28, 2010



Gordon Brown's Gaffe Is Nothing Short Of A Disaster -- The Guardian

The PM has just lost the votes of hundreds of thousands of people who agree with Gillian Duffy

The media finally have the campaign gaffe they were looking for. Gordon Brown has handed it to them on a plate. He has nobody to blame but himself – although that does not appear to stop him trying.

The PR disaster was immediate and obvious. The clip of the prime minister referring to Gillian Duffy as a "bigoted woman" has run all day on television and radio as often as the famous Prescott Punch in 2001. His "apology" on the Jeremy Vine programme served only to make matters worse. Brown looked devastated by what had happened, as well he might, but he seemed to want to blame the broadcasters for airing his words and said he was sorry "if I've said anything like that".

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

The gaffe that could kill off Gordon Brown -- Benedict Brogan

With Brown’s ‘Bigot’ Gaffe, Immigration Issue Front and Center in UK, Too -- Andrew Ian Dodge, Pajamas Media

The rural vote is being left to rot in the fields -- Alice Thomson, Times Online

Squaring the Circle in Afghanistan: Is the next major offensive in Kandahar a misguided application of counterinsurgency? -- Matthew Yglesias, American Prospect

US domestic politics will drive Mideast policy -- Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star

The good and the bad of the egg-tossing in Ukraine's parliament -- Jackson Diehl, Washington Post

Why China has got it right on the renminbi -- Barry Eichengreen, American Thinker

Electoral dysfunction: Why democracy is always unfair -- Ian Stewart, New Scientist

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