Make your own comparisons

There's plenty of places to find informed coverage of Prime Minister's questions, and though this isn't one of them, I have noticed the following. That when he's floundering at the dispatch box (which is quite a lot: it's just as well there's no longer a Downing Street cat otherwise by now it would be cowering in terror at 12.45 every Wednesday), Gordon Brown is beginning to turn into John Major. At least he's adopted one of Major's more unfortunate mannerisms: the habit of punctuating his remarks with an "oh yes".

It used to make Major (who proved to be not up to the job after succeeding a long-serving premier) sound weak and ineffectual. It really is not inconsiderably worrying that Brown is doing the same. Oh yes.

Any parallels between Cameron and Kinnock will be gleefully noted.