Austerity lessons for posterity

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Mayors of cities are often amongst the most boring people you can ever meet. Growing up in Calcutta, the Mayor was almost always so pro-establishment, that you didn't even care if he had an opinion because you were certain it would be someone else's voice as it were. Which is why London last week was so refreshing. Rushing to meet a group of us, attending Subodh Gupta's exhibition opening was Boris Johnson, who had to go through the travails of London's evening rush-hour traffic only because he had a flashing red light. The problem was this flashing red light was on the back of his helmet and not atop some Government car so no one really cared who this cyclist was. Yes, Boris Johnson, the present Mayor of London goes to work on a bicycle and wears the statutory helmet, which has a red light flashing on its....