I found this poll rather interesting. It asked people around the world to rate a number of world leaders on how much they trust them to "do the right thing" on world affairs.

Not surprisingly, Bush is hugely unpopular, but more troubling is the fact that the autocratic Putin and Hu Jintao do relatively well. The biggest surprise of all is the fact that our very own Gordon Brown topped the poll (though not by much) as the most trusted world leader (apart from Ban Ki-Moon, but I guess he benefits a lot by being head of an organisation with no real power), a very surprising result given how unpopular he is here.

What do people make of this? Is it just some random piece of spam I've managed to trawl up from the internet? Just for fun I've reproduced the poll here, with of course the essential "Gah!" option included (silly pollsters must have forgotten to ask that; though I suppose a vote for Ban Ki-Moon is essentially a vote for Gah!), to see if any of us are not sufficiently jaded yet as to still have any confidence in any of the candidates.