Gordon Brown lurched from being hailed as a global statesman to intense embarrassment tonight, after it emerged US President Barack Obama had turned down no fewer than five requests from Downing Street to hold a bilateral meeting at the United Nations in New York or at the G20 summit starting in Pittsburgh today.Read it here.
Actually, he doesn't seem to think much of any of the European nations. Could it be that he's just not that impressed by Western culture?
