What's going on with him?

One minute he was a Scottish mound of granite who had overseen 10 years of booming economy, a talent here to reunite New Labour, old socialism and middle England, a leader who needed no holiday when faced with foot and mouth, a rock against Northern Rock, a man who knew exactly what to do when confronted by terrorists.

The next…

"Don't write about that," someone said. "Politics isn't sexy."

"Pipe down" was my retort.

What about MP Caroline Flint? What about Edwina Curry, the woman who put the sleaze in Tory sleaze? What about Mrs Thatcher and that handbag?

Hmm. Maybe he was right. But politics needs tackling sometimes, doesn't it?

Especially by me.

The editor of The Times might be reading. He might not be impressed by tales of meatballs and boozing every Friday (wasted this weekend if you are, though, sir). So politics. Let's have a bash.

This Gordon Brown character then.

Obvious where his problem lies.

Not in the 10 pence tax thingamajig. Or the world economy's going for a burton. It's just that he keeps swinging both ways.

Not in the Michael Portillo sense, obviously.

But he does need to learn indecisiveness is not a quality for successful leaders.

If he didn't want to hold a General Election in November, why not say so straight away? If he didn't think the 10p tax rate was fair, why announce it in the first place? If he wants to be pictured with the Olympic torch, why not touch it?

"When the facts change," said John Maynard Keynes, who wasn't bad at economics either. "I change my mind."

Except with Brown it feels like he's changing his mind to bow to bullies.

At least when Tony Blair made monumental errors, he toughed them out, always insisting he was right.

That's why Gord will never win an election. His stone is set. Crewe, Boris, Najib all proved that. Governments rarely win support, they lose it slowly at best.

The New Labour project – the heady days of Britpop, Henmania and John Prescott punching the voters – will end with Brown.

"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a Conservative Government," as Franz Kafka didn't say.

Cameron's fate awaits.

But, then, should this really bother anybody one way or another? Should it be taking up so much news time and column inches?

After all modern Conservatism is New Labour's little brother, isn't it?

Centre right, third way, free markets, spin and presentation, social justice in theory if not in practice. They only differ on the things that don't make a difference.

Cameron is, as they say, Blair's heir. Real ideology is dead.

This politics lark then. Have I – other than Caroline Flint being hot stuff – got any of it right?