If it were stated baldly that a national British newspaper is running a daily campaign to destroy the career of a disabled man, highlighting his disability as an unacceptable weakness, no doubt much of the nation would be in uproar. And yet Gordon Brown’s visual impairment is currently being used against him by The Sun. Even worse in some respects, it is using the grief of a mother whose son recently died in Afghanistan to undermine Brown’s position as Leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister. There is no doubt that Brown’s mis-spelling of surname Janes as James was [...]






