From Guardian (31/1/05):
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| The doodles retrieved from the prime minister's desk after last week's Davos economic summit were said to be the mark of the man - unstable, under pressure, and showing him as being more like a vicar than a world leader. But it turns out the jottings were not the work of Tony Blair but the man sitting alongside him, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. When the scribbles - a collection of words and phrases enclosed in boxes and circles - were found at the end of the summit, a gleeful press drafted in psychologists and graphologists to deconstruct the mind behind them. The author, presumed to be Mr Blair, was variously described as a spiritual person but not a natural leader, struggling to keep control of a confusing world, and a daydreamer who always hoped for the best. But yesterday Downing Street revealed that the doodles were not by Mr Blair but by Mr Gates, who had shared a debating platform with the prime minister and the U2 musician Bono. A spokesperson said the handwriting was quite different from Mr Blair's. Officials were waiting to hear how the comments about Mr Blair would be applied to Mr Gates. "We look forward with amusement to explanations by a variety of psychologists and graphologists of how various characteristics applied to the PM on the basis of the doodles, such as 'struggling to concentrate' and 'an unstable man who is feeling under enormous pressure', equally apply to Mr Gates", said the spokesman. Joe Cerrell, spokesman for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said: "It would appear that the note was that of Bill Gates, left behind after the press conference." |
