Mafia Boss Brown

Posted on March 6, 2007
Filed Under The Man Himself |

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Tonight Channel 4 finally began showing the latest series of the Sopranos. The series, which has all the features of a great Shakespearian tragedy, depicts the life of Mafia boss Tony Soprano, a brooding alpha male who trusts no one.

Perhaps Brown shares some similarities with Soprano. As Richard Scott said in the Sunday Mirror:

Brown runs a team that makes the Mafia look like a debating society. It is totally loyal to him and anyone who questions his policies is automatically an enemy.

In Cabinet meetings, Brown is said either to sit there scribbling furiously making notes, or to ignore everyone around him and contribute very little. In public, we often see Brown as a overbearing, puritanical figure. Someone we are almost scared of.

The question for both men is how will their own Greek tragedies end.

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