Lines of Communication
"A British resident facing the death penalty at Guantánamo Bay has made a desperate plea for Gordon Brown to end his six-year ordeal and bring him home.
Binyam Mohammed, the only remaining Guantánamo inmate with the automatic right to British residency, has written to the prime minister pleading with him to use his influence with the US president, George Bush, to stop a US military court sending him to his death."
Although this story made the front page of the Independent, according to Politics Home there are precisely no column inches dedicated to this story in the Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian (although only on their website) and the Daily Mail. No other tabloid saw fit to cover this story. Instead, the front page of the Sun website at the moment says that Naomi Campbell may face jail. Strewth.
I wonder if Gordon Brown will send Binyam a personal phone call, like he has to some of the other people who write to him:
"Dark days call for direct measures, which perhaps explains why Gordon Brown has taken to cold-calling members of the public who write him letters of complaint.
Although the majority of queries and complaints written to the prime minister get a polite, generic letter in reply, as many as two dozen people a week get a personal telephone call from Brown, according to sources close to Downing Street."
I doubt it somehow.
It's nice to end posts on a cheerful note, so here is an anecdote (which may or may not be true) from the latter article which I enjoyed:
"The prime minister apparently made one of his first calls at what was for him the start of his working day. 'Brown made a phone call at 6am, without thinking,' a Labour source told PR Week. 'Luckily the person he called was a shift worker, so he was awake.'"
Cory
