Boris Johnson: culture and "horrible utilitarianism"

My latest for Comment is Free: What claims to success has he been making? Some of the noisier ones have been grossly inflated or false. He's congratulated himself over the building work to extend Tate Modern, but the mayoral cash contribution to the project was made by his predecessor Ken Livingstone. He's reckoned to have saved St George's Day from being "ignored", when in truth the previous mayor had funded celebrations of England's national saint for years. He did two lavish location press conferences for a promising-sounding history "season" called the Story of London, but this turned out to be an unevenly delivered "rebadging" exercise done on the cheap. Continues here .