You might try to fake your body language, but your handwriting won’t fool the experts. George Osborne must have been over the moon when during a heated debate, an angry George Brown hurled some papers across the Commons and they landed in his lap. Little did he know how revealing they would be.

A sheet with some scribbles was dispatched to Sarah Mooney, (pic) principal of the London College of Graphology, whose analysis of Brown’s 14 word note painted a less than flattering picture of our Chancellor, describing him as thus:

“The writer is not shy. The writer shows unreliable and poor judgment. The writer was not in control of their emotions and instincts at the time of writing.

“There are signs that the writer is someone who does not like to give a clear-cut image of himself. There are signs that the writer can be evasive.�

It is spot on.

Although I prefer our politicians to avoid using these personal attacks, I can understand how George Osborne found this irresistible. After all, you can’t disguise the way you dot your “i” and cross your “t”, your whole character is laid bare, your writing can reveal far more than you would wish in the hands of the right person.

If our Shadow Chancellor believes in graphology, shouldn’t we be asking our political candidates to have their writing analysed? Has your writing ever been analysed, how true do you think it would be? And why wouldn’t George Osborne give a sample of his own to The Times?

Here are some analyses which you may find of interest – Frank Sinatra, Jack the Ripper, Stalin and Himmler.