If you're born with the proverbial silver soup-eating utensil in your gob, yet your aspirations include running a country with a long-standing disdain towards the average toff, how can you relate to the lumpenproletariat? Maybe by showing that you suffer from the same troubles they do - such as, for example, being the victim of petty crime. Just days after his City Hall chum Boris announced the Summer Cycling campaign, David Cameron has joined the ever-swelling ranks of London cyclists who've had their bike pinched. The Tory leader was shopping "for a few bits of salad" at the Tescos on Portobello Road yesterday afternoon, and left his cycle unguarded outside. Emerging with his rocket and fennel, he was incensed to find that his precious two-wheeled friend was nowhere to be found. The PM-to-be is in sadly common company: a...
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