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Andrew Gimson

Boris Johnson's expletives are livening up the London Mayoral race

Boris Johnson has once again shown his ability to talk like a member of the working classes.

01 May 2012 08:43 AM

The Government has indicated that it intends to introduce a minimum price for alcohol

A 14-year-old girl lies drunk. Her mother’s a GP

The girl lay slumped against a wall. She looked about 14. Her hair was tousled, her mascara running and her short black skirt was pulled up so you could see her pants. Two of her friends were trying to keep her upright, without success. She was out for the count.

15 March 2012 11:04 AM

The bike whose theft keeps me awake at nights

Shock, bewilderment, dismay, the hope that there is some innocent explanation, the realisation there is none. These were the feelings which surged through my fuddled mind when I emerged into Great Portland Street at 10.30 at night and found my bike had been nicked.

10 January 2012 10:51 AM

Boris Johnson versus Ken Livingstone - the mayoral race is hotting up

What an ingenious riposte Boris Johnson has devised to Ken Livingstone's promise to cut fares. You or I might think there was a simple choice between raising fares and lowering them. At the start of next month, fares on London transport will rise by an average of 5.6 per cent: an increase which has presented Ken with the chance to step forward as the champion of hard-pressed passengers and promise to reduce fares by seven per cent, as long as we have the decency to elect him mayor on May 3, 2012.

20 December 2011 11:38 AM

Flight from the Führer

How was Hitler possible? What went wrong with the Germans, that for 12 years from 1933 they surrendered themselves to him? For, as Haffner observes, in September 1930, when the Nazis suddenly became the second largest party in the Reichstag, Hitler "was still widely regarded as a somewhat embarrassing figure with a dismal past (his personal appearance was thoroughly repellent - the pimp's forelock, the hoodlum's elegance, the Viennese suburban accent, the interminable speechifying, the epileptic behaviour with its wild gesticulations, foam at the mouth, and the alternately shifty and staring eyes)".

20 May 2002 12:00 AM

French toast their London life

In 1940 Chomont Wilson, then 20, waited five days as a French soldier at Dunkirk before one evening the German guns fell silent: "I said they must have stopped for dinner. We went down to the beach. I finished up in the sea and was picked up by a warship. I remember the captain calling out, 'Sit down Frogs, have something to eat.'

25 June 2001 12:00 AM

Seeing Berlin from a distance

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05 March 2001 12:00 AM

'You can be British and a Muslim'

The East London Mosque in Whitechapel Road is full to overflowing. At Friday prayers 3,500 people, most of them Bangladeshis, squeeze into the mosque and the pressure on space is so great that signs on the stairs read: "For health and safety reasons please do not pray here." A short distance away another 2,500 squeeze into the Brick Lane mosque, which was formerly a synagogue and before that a Huguenot church. Smaller mosques scattered across the East End are also crammed full.

05 February 2001 12:00 AM