Amongst all the criticism thrown at Gordon Brown in recent months, few have yet had reason to question his attention to detail, at least until now. I couldn't help but notice in today's Sunday Telegraph his speech to the Church of Scotland Assembly yesterday:
"If anyone had said 50 years ago that the people of our world would achieve black civil rights, tear down the Berlin Wall, end apartheid, no one would have believed it."
He's right. In 1958 nobody would have thought we could tear down the Berlin Wall - it wasn't built until 1961!
My wife, who was born and brought up in East Berlin, was distinctly unimpressed...
