London has a new–and different–mayor.

Yesterday in UK local elections, Conservative Party candidate Boris Johnson defeated the Labour Party’s incumbent two-term mayor, Ken Livingstone. Labour lost hundreds of council seats in London, northern England and Wales in the party’s biggest defeat in 40 years. See Daily Telegraph. Even by Brit standards, which prize oddity, the new London Mayor Johnson, a 43-year-old writer and TV commentator, is a unique fellow. AP: “Eccentric and offensive, London’s new mayor boasts a devastating wit but reckless streak“.