Roll model

A bit of light relief from The Telegraph today, in the inimitable style of London's mayor Boris Johnson:

Boris Johnson's role model

Never mind what Lord Heseltine called the "nattering nabobs of negativism", Boris Johnson says Britain will pull through the economic crisis, thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit of its people.

As the Mayor of London says: "Only the other day, I heard of a woman – a woman with two daughters, at that – who, of her own volition, managed to pull off a deal worth £500,000 to put a businessman in touch with the Duke of York."