The Observer (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Tabloid had attacked Gordon Brown for spelling mistakes in letter to Jacqui Janes, whose son Jamie died in Afghanistan The Sun has apologised for misspelling the surname of Jacqui Janes on its website, days after the News International title attacked Gordon Brown for making a similar error in a letter of condolence over her son's death in Afghanistan. Earlier this week the Sun...
Can't Stop Fanatics (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
... the Priminister was simply disgraceful. Attack the policies not the person. Then we have Mrs Janes. Here is a woman who clearly was not in any sort of emotional state to react objectively to what was going on and was totally unprepared for the ever expanding snowball that she had created. The editorial powers that be at The Suns head quarters must have damn near caused a tremor with all...
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The furious uncle of fallen soldier Jamie Janes stepped into the Gordon Brown letter storm last night, branding it political exploitation.
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Anorak News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
THE Sun would like to apologise for spelling Jacqui Janes’ name wrong in a piece about how Gordon Brown is the Devil incarnate for, er, spelling Jacqui Janes’ name wrong. In other Sun news, Jon Gaunt tells Gordon Brown: So Brown Pants Brown has insulted not only the family of fallen hero Jamie Janes but also every other British soldier by scribbling a note that even a five...
OberonHouston (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
After the Sun ran the story yesterday where the mother of soldier Jamie Janes accused the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, of disrespect for a badly spelt condolence letter (see yesterday on the blog), things have just got a whole load worse for the PM. He called the mother of the dead soldier, Jaqui Janes, to try and explain that he meant no disrespect. It didn't go well. Yesterday...
Mark Reckons (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
I didn't want to do it but I have listened to the phone call between Gordon Brown and Jacqui Janes, bereaved mother of British soldier Jamie Janes who died in Afghanistan. I listened to it because I was planning to blog about it and thought it was only fair to listen first. Before I listened I thought it was wrong for The Sun to have released this phone call which was supposed...
Tory Rascal (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... political reasons. Forgive me, then, if I put the ’scandal’ over Gordon Brown’s letter to Jacqui Janes into this perspective: the death of Guardsman Jamie Janes is a terrible tragedy, and Gordon Brown – whatever you might think about his policies – was right to send a handwritten letter of condolence to the soldier’s mother. The spelling mistakes in that letter, as undoubtedly...
Prawn Free Lembit (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
... Minister’s handwriting. You see — one of our brave lads, a young serviceman called Jamie Janes, was killed on the front line last month. Gordo wrote a letter of condolence to his mother but, due to his bad eyesight and dodgy handwriting (something he openly admits to), it looked like he wrote the surname “James” not “Janes”. The Sun got hold...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
... Prime Minister Brown accidentally botched a handwritten letter of condolence to the mother of Jamie Janes, a British soldier killed last month by an IED. He, too, was in Helmand province.It seems Brown misspelled Janes' name in the letter. The mother, urged on, some say, by Rupert Murdoch's tabloid, The Sun (which recently switched its political allegiance from Brown's Labor...
Events dear boy, events (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
... Disagree - 46% And, on the Sun’s treatment of Gordon Brown’s letter to the mother of Jamie Janes: The Sun was unfair to Gordon Brown over his handwritten letter to the mother of Private Jamie Janes. Agree 60% Disagree 27% The most significant finding being that 71% now want a phased withdrawal from Afghanistan. For that to happen, Brown is totally dependent...
Just A Thought! (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
You could not make it up! The Sun has been forced to apologise for doing exactly what it criticised the prime minister of doing – misspelling the surname of Jacqui Janes. She is the mother of Grenadier Guardsman, Jamie Janes, who was killed in Afghanistan. She made GB’s hand written letter of condolence public last week (see post) , to illustrate his grammatical and...
Thoughts Allowed! (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
You could not make it up! The Sun has been forced to apologise for doing exactly what it criticised the prime minister of doing – misspelling the surname of Jacqui Janes. She is the mother of Grenadier Guardsman, Jamie Janes, who was killed in Afghanistan. She made GB’s hand written letter of condolence public last week (see post) , to illustrate his grammatical and...
My World Earth (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Mourning: Guardsman Janes' family at his funeral in Hove, East Sussex, last month List of dialogue between the mom and Prime Minister Gordon. Gordon Brown failed to bow after he laid his wreath at the Cenotaph on Sunday (left). Grenadier Guard Jamie Janes, 20, (right) was killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan last month Letter of condolence full of mistakes. PM Gordon...
d4d (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Following on from all the guff this week about Gordon Brown supposedly mis-spelling the name of Jamie Janes in a letter of condolence (and it really does take a special kind of sanity/logic to name your child with almost-matching first and surnames, doesn’t it') and the Sun’s hate campaign about it, I just love this… But [...]
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
... The incident follows the criticism at Gordon Brown for misspelling the name of Grenadier Guardsman Jamie Janes in a handwritten letter to his mother. Mrs Shearer, a mother-of-two, said: “I’m extremely upset. Losing a son is devastating and I still think of Richard every single day. I opened the package on Friday and just couldn’t believe it when I saw they had got...
