Gordon Brown's real test: defeat child poverty - The Telegraph 4th December 2007

In spite of recent provocations, we mustn't start behaving as if the British government was an episode of Strictly Come Dancing. Prime Ministers should not be summarily slammed and booted off with a quick show of the old thumbs-down, as if every form of seriousness was actually best treated as a kind of hysterical entertainment. There is a sense just now that we enjoy failure more than we respect success, and I know that seems rational when there's not a lot of success about to respect.

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