This made my day. From the Foals’ Myspace:

in less than a week we’re flying back to london from new york. the jet-lag is one thing, and the pressures of playing a huge bbc festival after no sleep is another, but the fear that we’ll be flying into a city that isn’t so much a newly fascist city-state than one big gilded joke of a newspaper column made rotten flesh–by which i mean it’s probably going to smell a bit worse–is i would say the biggest of all. boris “picaninny” johnson, we salute you–sort of like we’d salute any smug self-satisfied old-etonian holding a statute-book to our head. congratulations, and good luck with the olympics.

at least when california elected a clown as governor they elected one who’d made his name as a muscle-man. boris appears to have been elected simply because he has blond hair.

Damn straight.