For Gordon’s sake

A woman on a British Airways flight who was seven months pregnant was told to give up her more spacious seat because of overbooking. A whole bunch of other passengers were instructed likewise. It was a two leg flight, as I understand it, and for the duration of the first leg all the spacious seats they’d been told to vacate remained infuriatingly empty — until, on the second leg, Gordon Brown accompanied by some PA harridan got on. That’s the story as the Mail sees it, anyway. And for once I’m tempted to believe them. It’s the sort of thing BA would do, which you would know if you’d ever flown with them.

According to Gordon, the trip was made as part of his duties at new York University. He claims to receive no money from this employment, or at least all the money he does get goes to his staff. Why would anyone want to pay him money to talk stuff? And do you believe he does it out of the goodness of his heart?