Does Gordon Brown have a sense of humour?

Apparantly not according to Evening Standard's dyspomaniac Peter Oborne. His analysis of Gordon Brown last night on C4's Dipatches programme was fairly savage. The premise was that out of 100 research interviews Gordon's mates such as Geoffrey Robins said he was great and everyone else said he was a cunt.

However, it has been reported elsewhere that at Sunday's Fabian Society leadership debate with John McDonell and Michael Meacher, who struggled between them to get one of them onthe ballot paper, that Gordon quipped that 'the left hand doesn't know what the extreme left hand is doing'.

Be careful Comrade. That kind of talk could mean engine failure.