Great White Metaphor Ahoy!
Celebrity sharks off Cornwall and 'Hugh Brown' in Washington - read Mick Hume's columns from The Times (London).
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Tuesday 31 July:
‘Some odd people have been fantasising that Gordon Brown is Hugh Grant. Not the actual floppy-topped actor, but the fictional prime minister whom Grant portrayed in the atrocious film Love Actually…’
Friday 3 August:
‘Whether the fin thing spotted off Cornwall belongs to a killer shark, a basking surfer, a dunkin’ dolphin or a “porbeagle” (a cross between porpoise and dogfish, presumably), one thing is clear. It marks the summer’s first sighting of a Great White Metaphor for an all-at-sea society…’
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