PM and Becks

Jonathan Freedland has a fun piece in The Guardian today on the similarities between Tony Blair and David Beckham. Both have wives with a taste for the finer things in life, both are going to take the Yankee dollar in semi-retirement and both revel in their celebrity. It remains to be seen, though, if the Labour party will be forced to recall Blair after dropping him.

Freedland argues that the two men are the epitome of modern Britishness. That’s precisely what is wrong with the country, I hear your roar. But really, they are not bad role models. Both work phenomenally hard, neither are easily down-hearted and both have show an ability to keep going long after the experts have written them off. Anyway, I’d rather have Blair and Becks than Brown and McClaren.