As Gordon Brown adds “practise my spelling and handwriting skills” to his to-do list, he might be able to console himself with the thought that at least he is not as embarrassed as Donald Rumsfeld. One of the known knowns about the former Defence Secretary of the United States is that he used a mechanical signature writer to sign his name on letters of condolence to relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan – an offence compounded by his original denial of having committed it. The defence that there were a great many people to console is no defence at all. Whatever the shortcomings of the Prime Minister’s work may be, it is all his
own.
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