Thursday, March 26, 2009

I knew this would happen: Gordon Brown is frustrated by 'Psycho' in No 10


"Alas, when the PM settled down to begin watching them the other night, he found there was a problem.

"The films only worked in DVD players made in North America and the words "wrong region" came up on his screen. Although he mournfully had to put the popcorn away, he is unlikely to jeopardise the special relationship – or "special partnership", as we are now supposed to call it – by registering a complaint."

If he or any of his team could get it right on DVD's or even proper gifts to foreign dignitaries, how confident can I be about how Obama handles foreign policy? I'm not a diplomat, nor a college graduate. Yet I knew about North American DVD's not working in European players.