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This is how the 7am news on Radio 4 began its report on the announcement that Gordon and Sarah Brown's son has cystic fibrosis:
This news will have come as a shock to the Browns.
How would we ever cope without such insight?
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Call me old fashioned but, tragic though this is for the Brown family, it is none of my (or anybody else's) business. I am not interested nor should I be. Of course, I am sorry for the parents and the little boy, but exposing one's sores in public is still both undignified and distasteful. Moreover, using this to hype the NHS (as done by Brown's colleague Yvette Cooper) is quite appalling. The only conclusion is that this revelation (like the recent lengthy portrayals of the effect on the Browns of his daughter's death) has far more to do with the Brown efforts to appear human (and thus vulnerable) in his bid to become PM than anything else.
Interestingly timed announcement.