Moonlighting

As Stephen says, it's hard to see how the mayor is going to be able to sell the idea of combining his new post with a reported £250,000 a-year column for the Telegraph. But then, if you've read the Gimson book, you'll know that having one's cake and attempting to eat it while riding a unicycle is a recurrent theme of the man's career. I actually found the biography depressing and hugely entertaining at one and the same time. Let's just hope Boris Mk II wasn't simply a mirage.