A Son of the Rock

David Milliband wrote a piece for the Guardian some weeks ago which was instantly proclaimed by the press as a leadership bid.

Alastair Darling gives the Guardian an interview at the weekend and it’s seen as a (political) suicide bid.

Isn’t it a possibility that both of these were actually neither?

In a less febrile world than these politicos and their attendant journalists inhabit these comments might have been perceived as unexceptionable.