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• Big blues for ’New Labour’
  9 May 2008, by Paul Kirkness

  Is ’New Labour’ a thing from the past?
  The excentric Boris Johnson was elected mayor of London on the 4th of May with a significant majority. The man is at best a jester... As Shadow Minister for Higher Education, Johnson was quiet - breaking the silence only in order to make provocative remarks about Islam, homosexuality and even the ’collective mentality’ of people in Papua New Guinea ("cannibals" and "chief killers").
  I was very sorry to hear about Ken Livingston’s defeat in London, (…)