Will Self in Evening Standard for Tuesday 6 May 2008 worries whether Boris Johnson has what-is-needed to eliminate the Central-London sufferings of car-drivers and crime-victims. But I believe you DO have the stuff to do it, BJ!
07h33-BST Thursday 08 May 2008-CE
Will Self in Evening Standard for Tuesday 6 May 2008 desires the “dwellers in the doughnut” (a term he quotes from somewhere to refer to Londoners who dwell not in the inner city) to walk in his shoes because he REALLY has it tough, from car taxes and nuisance crimes, not them. He goes:
“[Boris] Johnson says he will be a mayor for all Londoners but I ask him, how is he going to surmount this paradox: he was elected by the suburbs to enact policies instead aimed squarely at improving the lives of those at the centre. How, when he was elected on the basis of anxieties, will he deal with realities?”
I buy the Daily Echo, Bournemouth, almost all the time. I occasionally buy the Evening Standard (the surviving evening paper for London) in addition. The quality of writing in these evening papers (both for sale in Poole Bay conurbation) is excellent. Just as theatre, cinéma and television all still have their niches, newspapers will survive in this age of the internet. Professional writers deliver focussed griff, like this Will Self work, to ensure it. More:
“And while [Boris Johnson] may be a genius, as his friend Charles Moore claimed on the radio at the weekend, I doubt [whether] he has what I always understood to be its true hallmark: the infinite capacity for taking pains. He can prove me wrong.” (I knew it. I am definitely NOT a genius.)
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