Jonathan Freedland, who writes for the left-leaning British newspaper The Guardian, has a fascinating look at Gordon Brown, who succeeded Tony Blair earlier this year as the Prime Minister of Great Britain. It would see, in Freedland’s estimation, that Brown may not, after all, be Paul Martin to ...   more »

"...We are largely suffering from circumstances over which we couldn't have had any control. The wild drive of discontented nationalism ... and of discontented Islam .. might have proved too much for us however far-seeing we had been; but that doesn't excuse us for being blind..."   more »