Be afraid. Be very afraid  Boris Johnson campaigns   Never mind
what a laughing stock we'd be, internationally, if we elected
Boris Johnson as mayor. Never mind what a mess he'd make of the
whole thing, how unproven he is in anything beyond having a big
gob, never mind that if we think Ken Livingstone lives high on
the taxi hog, God alone knows what this moneyed creep would get
up to. Never mind all that for the moment. Let's just
concentrate on this myth of his being a nice guy. He is not a
nice guy.  Two mistakes we make about Boris: the first is that,
because he says "unacceptable" things, then he must be honest;
he must be outside the airless bubble of PC. This is bilge. He
is no more honest than any other philanderer before him. He has
lied flagrantly, flamboyantly, to save his marriage, and given
how little else he's prepared to do for it, one must conclude
that he doesn't put a very great premium on telling the truth.
So if he gives out these apparently harsh truths about gay
people or Liverpudlians or