The Telegraph is reporting that one of the first acts by new UK PM Gordon Brown is to change the standard email typeface from 12pt Times to 14pt Arial. The Torygraph refers to it as being "ascetic-looking", going on to point out that Gordon is blind in one eye. Yeah that's it, let's make accessibility within the context of a limited number of typefaces available to the widest number of computer users all about asceticism! Cheap shot.
Source: MS Typo News