Please.

Was this written for the Evening Standard? Who is editing this stuff. This is not from the London I live in, where Boris is considered a joke, and Ken Livingstone is a respected and popular public figure whose policies, such as the congestion charge are hugely successful. He has said some stupid things in his tenure of over six years, but the judgement on his performance by the public is refelcted in the polls by a large margin over Boris what's his name. I'm sure Geoffrey Wheatcroft is impressed with scholarships and entertained by mannered crumpled clothes and naughty behaviour, but his article is more propoganda than jounalism.