My latest for Cif starts like this:
Neither the man from the Metropolitan police nor London's mayor could be accused of presentation fatigue. At a joint press conference at City Hall on Wednesday, Boris Johnson and Sir Paul Stephenson hawked Scotland Yard's new, London-wide crime mapping website with the uncrushable optimism and huckster guile of door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen. Is law-breaking soiling the deep pile of your neighbourhood? We have the answer! It beats as it sweeps as it cleans!
And then it carries on.
