Gordon Brown comes out swinging

In THE past two years, Gordon Brown has emerged from his self-imposed purdah only to save Dalgety Bay from lethal watch-dials and attack soft targets such as the R&A. Citing Augusta – a golf club he apparently believes is based in South Carolina – which recently admitted the iconic Condoleezza Rice, he insists that the R&A must do the same.

As a veteran R&A “blazer”, I would love to see Condoleezza in the Big Room, but all progress in that direction ground to a halt after the Labour government’s toxic intervention. Anyway, there are surely more pressing problems facing our country than a few elderly men playing golf on a public course and having lunch together in their own club.

The former chancellor could, for example, indicate how the economic mess he left might be sorted or how the ruination of our scenery by loathsome wind farms can be halted.

Dr John Cameron

Howard Place
St Andrews, Fife