Fleet Street has better things to do

... than follow Gordon Brown about as he traipses around the world's airports trying not to look confused while one national leader after another - not to mention his own central bank governor and finance minister - rubbishes his Master Plan for the World Economy.

Downing Street has been miffed to discover that most of Fleet Street's finest have chosen not to cover the Prime Minister's 'Save the World' vanity tour. Instead the hacks paying £5,000 to be on the PM's jet are mostly - with due respect to them - from the second division. Patrick Wintour, George Pascoe Watson and Philip Webster - political editors of the Guardian and the Times respectively - have all stayed in London, leaving their deputies to cover the trip. Nick Robinson, the BBC political editor, has flown with the PM, but Adam Boulton of Sky News has stayed in Washington.

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Meanwhile, back home, that same central bank governor has historic and completely unprecedented private talks with the Head of State while the Prime Minister is out of the country, plus an unscheduled private meeting with the finance minister.

To add a bit of hilarity, an MEP by the name of Who He? makes headlines at Brown's expense on all the world's media except the BBC while, over in South America where the Saviour currently finds himself, Pele apparently can't spare him five minutes.

Only the (also very confused and, we now see, naive and easily-led) Former One is accompanying Snotty along 'the road to Hell' (copyright the government of the Czech Republic and all governments).