From my Comment is Free piece yesterday:
There are things that enrage others about the London mayor that I quite admire. I'm not bothered by his being a postmodern confection, because some of my favourite pop stars were. His sometimes uncertain grasp of policy detail is no automatic indictment in a job where a flair for painting big pictures is valuable. His talents for evasion, playing dumb and recycling reverses as jokes are endearing, even when they're infuriating. And if he sometimes thumbs his nose at procedure and convention, well, that's why many Londoners voted for him. There is a danger, though, of Mayor Johnson's winning style becoming a distraction from the substance of other, less showbiz, mayoral stuff that is difficult or just plain going wrong.
That was before yesterday's kerfuffles over the Standard's WEZ story, mind. But read on anyway.
