Hell freezes over again ...
Earlier this year when Hillary Clinton appeared in a sympathetic interview with someone who she used to regard as part of the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" one of the US papers wrote the headline "Hell has officially frozen over."
I wrote something similar last month, when the Guardian published a piece which took seriously the idea that progressive people consider that there were times when Labour deserved to lose an election, even to the Conservatives, and that we might be approaching one of those times.
Now for the third time in a year and the second in less than 30 days we have another "Hell freezes over" moment.
Gordon Brown is to give Peter Mandelson a peerage so he can return to the cabinet. He must be desperate.
I have been trying to think of an example of two living people who are even more notorious for not liking each other so that I can write an "and next week X and Y announce that they are the best of friends" joke. Even in the world of politics I cannot think of two people both of whom are still alive to which that applies.
But perhaps the general flavour of the point could be caught by "And next week Ted Heath rises from the dead and announces that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister of all time."
I wrote something similar last month, when the Guardian published a piece which took seriously the idea that progressive people consider that there were times when Labour deserved to lose an election, even to the Conservatives, and that we might be approaching one of those times.
Now for the third time in a year and the second in less than 30 days we have another "Hell freezes over" moment.
Gordon Brown is to give Peter Mandelson a peerage so he can return to the cabinet. He must be desperate.
I have been trying to think of an example of two living people who are even more notorious for not liking each other so that I can write an "and next week X and Y announce that they are the best of friends" joke. Even in the world of politics I cannot think of two people both of whom are still alive to which that applies.
But perhaps the general flavour of the point could be caught by "And next week Ted Heath rises from the dead and announces that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister of all time."
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