Invention of Lying

Gordon Brown's driving ambition has not been to improve Britain. It has been to retain power at all costs - with no lie judged too great in his ruthless and relentless self-promotion.

More Buck Passing From Gordon.

In a sign of growing unease within No 10, the Prime Minister's spokesman stressed it was Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth and Foreign Secretary David Miliband who gave the green light for the raid that freed journalist Stephen Farrel.

However Mr Miliband was in Paris at the start of a European tour on climate change during the critical hours.

Mr Ainsworth, who is ranked 22 in Cabinet seniority, is also thought to have been away from Whitehall at the time.

Go and eat some cheese and wash it down with a bottle of Chianti, you fucking miserable, misbegotten, lardy worm.