Boris Johnson is already a celebrity known to most British people by his first name only

Boris Johnson is already a celebrity known to most British people by his first name only. That is a rare distinction. Forty-three now, he made his unusual way to the top by appearing on talk shows, and hamming it up with a distinctive mix of comic self-deprecation and an intelligence that owes nothing to political correctness, and therefore has rocked many a boat. Besides, he has a shock of blond hair that defies the barber. The Conservatives took a gamble running such a character in the recent election for mayor of London, and the gamble paid off. Boris got 10 percent more of the votes than his opponent Ken Livingstone, who had won this election twice before. But Livingstone is a hardline Trotskyite, a man who first supported the IRA and now supports the Muslim jihadis. Boris made him look like a relic from the Stone Age of the Left, and he has since wasted no time entering city hall to hack away at its entrenched socialism. Cronies and unnecessary bureaucrats, he promised all in his own idiom, would be "humanely euthanized." For the first time in a decade, the future looks Conservative in Britain.

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