Former Boris Johnson adviser James McGrath is in the news again

What happened next to James McGrath Remember the first of the several advisers Mayor Johnson lost in those crazy early months before we all learned to fear and revere him? Well, he's been busy advancing the great cause of freedom - no, really - in the Maldives. This has not pleased president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who has given the Australian political strategist a taste of his own medicine: Just before the start of Thursday's presidential voting, Gayoom, who won six previous five-year terms thanks to electoral rules that made him the only candidate, portrayed the 34-year-old Queenslander as a corrupt - and corrupting - outsider, masterminding the... [read full story]