You shall be known by the company you keep...

[shewhomust]

I don't post much about politics here; what can I say that hasn't already been said better by others? And it's been such a long downhill slope, haven't we seen it all already?

But I admit that pictures on last night's news of Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher still managed to shock me.

Silly me. After all, we've read Animal Farm, we know how it ends:

Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.