Brown trousers

Very few inches in the today's papers on Brown's 'immigrants to do community service' speech yesterday, squeezed out by wild speculation about a challenge, the best/least substantiated being Patrick Wintour's in the Guardian - Clarke and Milburn launching website, ergo Miliband, despite repeated denials, will stand. You gave to feel sorry for the poor bastard (don't you?) he keeps radio silence so as not to look like a PM-in-waiting throwing himself around, then when he does come out with a big gesture speech no one's interested. Maybe it's because he's not very good at them, and we've heard it before. How many speeches on Britishness is that now? I ended up reading this fun bit of polly filla from India Knight, I think she hits the presentational nail on the head