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...bigger hurdle for Johnson is to prove that he can do deep as well as droll. In a revealing jest about his party's candidate for mayor, Tory leader David Cameron remarked, "Inside Boris there is a serious, ambitious politician fighting to get out." The London election this May will pit Johnson against another colorful maverick, the incumbent Ken Livingstone, a wily and resilient left-winger who has introduced tolls for cars entering central London and is promising to boost the capital's stock of affordable housing. Johnson has not yet revealed a detailed manifesto but speaks of increased "financial...
...Someday This Pain will be Useful to You” by Peter Cameron...
Frankly, I’m kind of insulted by the premise of this title. What does Peter Cameron know about my pain? Who is Peter Cameron, anyway? I would normally assume that the boy drawn on the front is putting his hand in front of his face like that because of a headache, or maybe even deep, adolescent angst. But unlike Peter Cameron, I don’t like to make assumptions. For all I know, the boy could be studying palmistry...
...political journal New Statesman, previously regarded in Westminster as Brown's cheerleader, marked the Prime Minister's astonishing plunge from grace. Pollsters have tracked that vertiginous descent. In opinion polls, Labour led the opposition Conservatives by some eight percentage points in September; two recent surveys show David Cameron's revitalized party ahead by 11 points, the most substantial lead it has enjoyed over Labour since Margaret Thatcher was in power. Brown's government has been buffeted by a series of mishaps and blunders since the run two months ago on Northern Rock, Britain's fifth-largest mortgage lender, which...
...bizarre saga has captivated Britain, seeping even into the top echelons of public life. During Prime Minister Gordon Brown's weekly Parliamentary grilling on Wednesday, Conservative leader David Cameron hammered the British leader for forgetting past promises: "He wants us to think he is like the man in the canoe - he hasn't been around for the past five years...