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Macavity was here

  • Newsnight
  • 30 Mar 07, 05:30 PM

brownoutline203260.jpgEveryone keeps going on about Gordon Brown having "Macavity the cat-like qualities"; a reference to T.S. Eliot's most elusive of characters. Lord Turnbull did it recently, off the back of which the Guardian . This week it was .

But way back in October last year when there was talk of political subterfuge, efforts to oust Tony Blair and a mass resignation of junior members of government which forced the prime minister to make clear - or clearer - his timetable for leaving office, Newsnight noted the chancellor's absence and made the comparison with Macavity. We even got the actor Bill Paterson to recite a little for us.

Now, we're not ones for saying "pah, we did it first"... we just thought you might all like to enjoy Mr Paterson's mellifluous tones once again. Watch him here.

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  • 1.
  • At 04:52 PM on 22 Jun 2007,
  • John H wrote:

Why do you spin so outrageously? 'Mass resignation' was 1 unkown junior ministerTom Watson' and six unpaid assistants. Is it beyond your wit to give us unspun factual news?

  • 2.
  • At 04:58 PM on 22 Jun 2007,
  • John H wrote:

Why do you spin so outrageously? 'Mass resignation' was 1 unkown junior ministerTom Watson' and six unpaid assistants. Is it beyond your wit to give us unspun factual news?

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