Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Brown wins US backing for debt relief boost

This is a nice little piece of good news. I've been admiring, on the quiet, how Gordon Brown is evidently really committed to making things better for the tw-thirds world and it's starting to pay off. In the 80's I used to write to [Tory] MP's about such things and of course the answer was that we have to live in the real world and if no-one else would hel then there was little point in us doing it and ws it beingspent well anyway .... How refreshing to see that a bit of commitment and, no doubt, appeals to enlightened self-interest can make things better.

Now all we need is a chancellor committed to doing something about global warming and things could be really sunny [! ;-) ]