Has Gordon been surfing the Zeitgeist?

The front page of today’s Observer carries a piece about Gordon Brown’s admiration for TV talent shows and the sense of ‘aspiration, how anyone can achieve things’ which they encourage. He talks of wanting to create an ‘X-factor Britain’ :

The story in The Observer

Perhaps he or his advisers read the following piece Peter wrote for the comment pages of The Sunday Telegraph, which appeared only a few weeks ago:

Screens are alive with competition