Sir: What is this ‘Brown bounce?’ There would be no bounce at all if our media had not reverted to their favoured toecap-kissing mode.
Brown-nosing
Sir: What is this ‘Brown bounce?’ There would be no bounce at all if our media had not reverted to their favoured toecap-kissing mode.
When Tony Blair came to office ten years ago he was new and fresh and merited a honeymoon period, though seven years of it was outrageous.

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