Severed head

After The Earthquake The Landscape Changes (Ian Bell in The Herald ):

"I thought New Labour was a crock long before 1997. Which is to say incoherent. Which is to say little more than redundant managerialism, fancy book-keeping, equivocation, punitive moralising, ethical relativism - and advertising. The hunt for Mr Brown's fabled fatal flaw goes on, no doubt, but a single truth is that he severed himself from all the political forces that shaped him. It turns out that he has found nothing, nothing of substance, to take their place."