Like everyone else, I might as well get my two-cents in while the story’s still hot. About the sainted one’s problems with Liverpool, that is. What a crock! I might be accused of pandering, but to hell with them. When I went over the top about the Puerto Rican parade some time ago, it looked like curtains. The then Big Bagel mayor Rudy Giuliani threatened to have me deported, and all sorts of busybodies got in on the act. But no one from The Spectator forced me to do anything like what Michael Howard did to dear old Boris. In fact, on the contrary, Frank Johnson even went so far as to introduce me during a Speccie dinner as the Puerto Rican ambassador to the Court of St James’s; a very nice touch, I thought.
The one who got it right about the present brouhaha was the other Michael (Gove), in the Times.
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