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Why isn't Brown playing his part on the world stage?

Iain Macwhirter on Global crises

IN his recent book, Courage: Eight Portraits, Gordon Brown praised the Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi as a fearless prisoner of conscience battling a state with one of the worst human rights records in the world.