You've heard of Build-a-Bear. Course you have! Well, now you can build a mayor! Thrillingly, a crack team of Guardian geniuses has created an online machine for assembling a "custom mayor" for London based on your pick from a range of policy pledges. I've already had a go and duly produced a centre-left bricolage comprising 50% Green Jenny Jones, 30% Red Ken Livingstone and 20% Yellow Brian Paddick. That's a little more Brian than I am in real life and a little less Ken, but the basic pattern is bang on. Sorry Boris, by the way.
In truth, I'm not an ideal mayor builder. After months of covering the campaign I'm only too familiar with just about every policy position the mayor machine offers its users, so the outcome was unlikely to surprise me. You, though, are almost certain to be fresher, sweeter and more innocent than I in every way. So go on - give the mayor machine a try.
