Whatever happened to the great British labrador?

Great Blair reaction in the Mail today. The front page trails a Max Hastings column - "Almost every word Blair spoke would have been perjury had he been on oath."

Chinny-reckon Hastings.

"Max Hastings' devastating critique on the end of an era" is the usual couple of thousand words of filler, I prefer it when he sticks to Why I like the great British rain cloud, or Bees: a noble British tradition. He probably gets paid by the word and writes it wearing striped pyjamas and day-dreaming about corporal punishment.

Yen pointed out last night that Blair's "generous praise" for Brown consists of calling him "remarkable". That's like me saying Tom has a remarkable t-shirt, it doesn't mean I like it.

Why does the Mail like Brown so much? Do they like his work ethic?