Caption Contest: What is Gordon Brown thinking?
Here’s a photograph from British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s recent trip to Iraq. What do you think was on his mind? Who do you think he wants to see on the receiving end? Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images UPDATE: And the winner is… nycbrian, with “do you think i can mow my backbenchers into submission w/ this?”
Here's a photograph from British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's recent trip to Iraq. What do you think was on his mind? Who do you think he wants to see on the receiving end?
Here’s a photograph from British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s recent trip to Iraq. What do you think was on his mind? Who do you think he wants to see on the receiving end?
UPDATE: And the winner is… nycbrian, with “do you think i can mow my backbenchers into submission w/ this?”
Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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