Dr Brown's Casebook
Telegraph | News | Poll blow for Brown as Blair refuses to back him
Earlier in the year, 36 per cent of voters thought he would prove to be a good prime minister. That figure has fallen to 27 per cent, while the proportion thinking he would probably fail as prime minister has risen from 33 per cent to 44.
The Conservative leader has a five-point lead over Mr Brown as "the best prime minister"
No wonder poor old Middle England is about to be hit with a charm offence from Old Brown who hopes our folk memories will see him as the trusty old Dr Finlay. I fear he may be as popular as the 90s remake of that fine program and sink with out a trace.
Not many people know it but Pigs and Humans share the same pheromones, it is just that pigs react to them more. Last week Dolly the 300lb Glouscester Old Spot was on heat, and feeling lonely. As soon as I walked into the pen she bounded over to me and whacked me round the back of the legs. She then planted her legs wide apart and stood stock still - this strangely familiar ritual is standard pig foreplay. Brown's entreaties to the English Middle Classes has the same subtlety and attractiveness...