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Originally Posted by Osem

Perhaps you should direct your bite to those villifying Brown I've already covered the 'handwritten' aspect and neither you or I know what approach previous PMs took to the writing of such letters. I've also already stated here that I don't think he meant any offence or was being uncaring and that the Sun is simply using this as a stick to beat him with, quite unjustifiably. However, as has been shown, offence was caused to the person who matters most of all - the recipient of that letter and all that could have been avoided if the PM and his advisors thought a tad more about what he'd written and how it was presented. It's nothing to do with the PM being partially sighted, it's about him contemplating the reaction of someone whose child has just been blown up serving the country he's running. IMHO her feelings should come first, not Mr Brown's...

Hear hear.