That would make an excellent film title. Same rythm as "The Bourne Conspiracy", but I digress.

Harry's place post an excellent summary of Gordon Brown (Twat) and the hypocrisy of refusing Asylum to the Iraqi Interpreters who have supported our missions in Iraq.

Adam LeBor contrasts the heroism and sacrifice of some of the eight 'heroic' portraits who stood against tyranny, against Brown who cannot even stand for fair-play and repay the debt we owe the brave interpreters who risk continuing death and injury while left to survive in Basra. I quote:

Edith Cavell, an English nurse who helped Allied soldiers to flee Belgium in the First World War, was executed by German troops. The German Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged in Flossenbürg concentration camp for his struggle against Nazism. Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat in wartime Budapest who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews, disappeared into the maw of the Soviet gulag.

He notes that this would do nothing to help or damage his crumbling authority. What chance of us recruiting interpreters in Afghanistan or the next theatre of war. I really liked his closing quotation - from Brown himself "My father taught me that loyalty is the test of a real friendship. Easy to maintain when things are going well, but only really tested in hard times.”

Brown: What a sh_t.

Read this piece from Harry's place here. More from the Times here.