No honeymoon for Brown

It may become the most calamitous premiership for at least 100 years. Less than six months after tak...

It may become the most calamitous premiership for at least 100 years. Less than six months after taking over from Tony Blair as the UK's prime minister, Gordon Brown has already stumbled through a series of disasters. He is, to use a popular word in the financial markets, a sub-prime minister, and he leads a sub-prime economy. Brown has taken a beating. As he knows from his 10 years as Chancellor, so long as you can deliver a prosperous economy and keep public spending flowing, you can survive just about anything. If you can't, you start to look like sliced sausage. Whether Brown succee...