The first rule of Film Club is, you shouldn’t talk about Film Club

The Chancellor’s off on another excursion today- to plug the new Film Club to schools. A noble idea to bring foreign films to schools. Yet many of the films available in the pilot stage are more Hollywood than Art House.

It also appears to be more of a publicity stunt for Love Film, the company that owns and provides the DVDs. Get when they’re young, hey.

Having conquered the virtual world by getting rid of all their competitors (ScreenSelect were their most recent victims) looks like Love Film are looking for new markets to dominate.

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Nearly £7k for jet-setting Brown

MP’s travel expenses released today show that Brown spent £6,953 on air travel last year, compared to £478 on rail.  It was only last month Brown was telling us how MPs have to set an example when it comes to the environment and how he was doing his bit compared to Blair’s careless “i’m going to continue to fly whilst the world melts” jet-setting lifestyle.

It may be true that these flights are for “business” rather than holiday.  But as Brown said

“you’ve got to take people with you and therefore I think you’ve got to show by your actions that you are not only doing what you expect other people to do but you can actually make a difference by these actions.”

Someone might have to start getting the train more often. 

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Brown to make World Cup personal campaign

Gordon manages to jump on another bandwagon. Well if Tony can secure the Olympics…

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Pope to offer blessing

As any aspiring leader knows, they need to be blessed by higher authorities. It looks like Gordon’s going to get his divine blessing today when he meets the Pope.

Although it’s a meeting about a new worthwhile scheme to provide drugs to the developing world, it comes at an important time. Labour have been under fire over the gay adoption issue and Gordon may use this as an opportunity to paste over these differences. Its important to keep those New Labour Catholic voters on side. Blair has been good at that in the past (he rarely hides his affinity to Catholicism). But what’s Brown’s feelings on religion? His following of the Church of Scotland doesn’t go down well with Catholics or the English.

Update:

It seems that it was a private meeting and Brown kindly invited the Pope to come and campign for him visit the UK.

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