The dying days of Rome...

James Delingpole is on

cracking form

today: 

"Failed tyrants are never more dangerous than in the last months of their terrible reigns. It's when the surviving political prisoners get bumped off, when the suicidal last-ditch offences are launched, when the dictator punishes his people for his own inadequacies by laying waste the land in a final act of hellish Götterdämmerung. So what can we expect from Gordon Brown?

As much, I fear, as he can possibly get away with in the time available. Already, he has proved himself by some measure the worst prime minister in at least a century. But give him time: with a year to go until he's booted out of Downing Street, he could still yet give the likes of King Stephen or King John a good run for their money as quite simply our island's worst leader since time began."