“The loss of liberty is one of the big legacies of an appalling, shallow, dishonest and vindictive government, which has failed the hopes and trust of so many. None of the brilliant lawyers and academics who leap to the defence of the Human Rights Act can deny that the Government's and Home Office's contempt for rights are habitual, and appear to be an ineradicable part of their nature that the HRA cannot restrain.”
Henry Porter “The Human Rights Act can't restrain the Government”
“Enough. There's something wrong in our politics, something big and bang-in-the-middle: a howling question that is not about the global economy at all. It's about domestic leadership. It's about Mr Brown. He isn't any good. He's failing. He's embarrassing. He's dreadful. His colleagues know this. Yet they are gripped with a terrible fatalism, sliding towards election defeat as though catastrophe were unavoidable.”
Matthew Parris “Do the honourable thing, Mr Brown. Run away”
“Those who have to work with him say that [Gordon Brown] really seems to think that announcing such initiatives is the same as achieving them. Is he, they sometimes wonder, quite right in the head?”
Charles Moore “Mervyn King's timely lesson in economics for Gordon Brown”