{"id":105,"date":"2004-09-25T15:57:42","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T15:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/25\/running-across-the-hills-of-fife-while-talking-about-international-development-policy\/"},"modified":"2004-09-25T15:57:42","modified_gmt":"2004-09-25T15:57:42","slug":"running-across-the-hills-of-fife-while-talking-about-international-development-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/running-across-the-hills-of-fife-while-talking-about-international-development-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Running across the hills of Fife while talking about international development policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great profile\/interview with Gordon Brown in today’s Guardian magazine – here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“When people talk about party politics it is almost purely in the sense of ambitions – who’s up, who’s down, who’s in, who’s out. But it would be outrageous if that’s what drove people on. The only point of being around is to get something done.”<\/p>\n

But rather than the politics, this is a great insight into Brown the man. Could the Guardian be trying to build up public sympathy for him prior to a full-on leadership bid? Who cares? It’s a nice piece, and he comes across as a genuinely decent bloke. A rare thing in politics…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great profile\/interview with Gordon Brown in today’s Guardian magazine – here. “When people talk about party politics it is almost purely in the sense of ambitions – who’s up, who’s down, who’s in, who’s out. But it would be outrageous … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}