Mark Wadsworth: Prime Ministers with melty faces

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Prime Ministers with melty faces

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Is that her face immediately after the episode with the cucumber?; 7 June 2011 at 22:35
Mark Wadsworth said...: Anon, I dunno, but the longer I stared at the photo in today's FT which inspired this, the more I thought that the poor woman has had a stroke (i.e. the illness, not a quick fumble with Sarkozy).; 7 June 2011 at 22:39
Sue said...: It has to be the stress :) and they thought they would enjoy all that power. It's energy sapping and not how I would want to spend my life.

I have noticed that people with excessive power to get real ugly with age. Brown was an absolute horror at the end.; 7 June 2011 at 23:07
Mark Wadsworth said...: S, I was famous once, for a day, it is HELL.

But as counter example to Brown, what about Clinton, he still looks young fresh and breezy?; 8 June 2011 at 00:17
A K Haart said...: Sometimes, a tiny part of me sees at least some of these insanely ambitious people as victims of our need for leaders, heroes and celebrities and the absurd demands we place on them.

Good portrait btw - with a whiff of sympathy?; 8 June 2011 at 10:45
Mark Wadsworth said...: AKH, yes, I do have a soft spot for her.; 8 June 2011 at 11:09
Bayard said...: "But as counter example to Brown, what about Clinton, he still looks young fresh and breezy?"

Perhaps it's a European thing - think of Blair (well, actually, try not to think of him, I should have said, try looking at a recent photo (that's bad enough)).; 8 June 2011 at 11:48
dearieme said...: "But as counter example to Brown, what about Clinton, he still looks young fresh and breezy?" But bad boy Bill never took his responsibilities seriously - his special topic was dereliction of duty.; 8 June 2011 at 15:20

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