Browned off by PM speech costs.Byline: Joan Burnie GORDON Brown has shelled out $40,000 to an American speechwriting company called West Wing Writers. Apparently they were required to polish his Limey verbal pearls before he addressed any US audience including their Congress. How Gordon spends his money is of course his business - except I have a feeling that it's, as usual, us lot who picked up the bill. Considering the number of advisors and spin surgeons the PM has, you'd think one of them might have put a few words together for him. If not, I'm sure our Tam Cowan Tam Cowan (born 1969) is a Scottish football journalist, radio and television presenter who was educated at Braidhurst High School in Motherwell. He has a twice weekly article in the Daily Record newspaper and is presenter of Scottish football comedy TV show Offside. would be honoured to spice spice, aromatic vegetable product used as a flavoring or condiment. The term was formerly applied also to pungent or aromatic foods (e.g., gingerbread and currants), to ingredients of incense or perfume (e.g., myrrh), and to embalming agents. up the PM's speeches for no more than a square sausage sausage, food consisting of finely chopped meat mixed with seasonings and, often, other ingredients, all encased in a thin membrane. Although sausages were made by the ancient Greeks and Romans, they were usually plain and unspiced; in the Middle Ages people began to on a roll. AGREED, Frankie Boyle's "joke" about Rebecca Adlington wasn't nice - although my main objection to it was that it wasn't particularly funny either. But her agent, Rob Woodhouse Robert ("Rob") Woodhouse (born June 23, 1966) is a former Australian Olympic swimmer, specializing in medley swimming. He is now a prominent sports agent and company director. He is the only male Australian to have won an Olympic medal in an individual medley event. , didn't do the into Higher swimmer any favours. Not many people had heard Boyle's remarks, until Woodhouse started banging on about them. But cheer up Becca, at least when you look into the back of a spoon you don't see the geekier Proclaimer pro·claim tr.v. pro·claimed, pro·claim·ing, pro·claims 1. To announce officially and publicly; declare. See Synonyms at announce. 2. staring back at you. CAPTION(S): SPEAKING UP: Gordon |
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