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...nobody is laughing, then it's probably not a British election. Since the launch a quarter of a century ago of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, contenders sporting ridiculous names and deliberately nonsensical manifestos have taken part in many of the country's parliamentary, municipal and mayoral polls, and sometimes even won them. In the 2002 mayoral race in the port city of Hartlepool, for instance, a man dressed as a monkey and promising free bananas decisively beat Labour and Britain's two other leading parties, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. So it's not surprising that...
...Conservative is the funnier man, perhaps even the ultimate joke candidate. Billboard posters and 4.2 million postcards being distributed by Livingstone's campaign urge voters to imagine Johnson, despite more than six years as a member of parliament still best known for his many comically chaotic appearances on British TV game shows, in charge of London. "Suddenly he's not so funny," warns Livingstone's campaign literature...
...large portion of the audience left after the catwalk modeling during the performance of “Bed” singer J. Holiday. An added bonus for those in the VIP section, besides the prime seats, were the gift bags, which included discount coupons, shirts from Jack Wills, the British outfitter, and Vitamin Water. Audience members said that this year’s Eleganza was well worth the $12-$15 price tag. “I especially liked the fact that, from what I could see, all ethnicities were represented in the models, every color of the rainbow was pretty...
...quintessentially American types of music migrate to England and come back sexier and more palatable. Co-ed quintet The Heavy, from the suburbs of Bath, takes a page from this book on their new album “Great Vengeance and Furious Fire,” blending their sexy British sound with one steeped in the rich American heirlooms of blues and funk. With a mixture of gospel-infused vocals, R&B beats, and garage rock sounds, they manage to simultaneously call Sonic Youth and Prince to mind, swaying between being more heavily influenced by one or the other throughout...
Even by the standards of Somalia, a country gripped by chaos for 17 years, it has been a horrible couple of weeks. First came the killings of two British Somali teachers and their Kenyan colleagues, all said to have been shot in the head. Then pirates waylaid a French yacht traversing the country's territorial waters. And now, renewed fighting in Mogadishu has killed at least 100 people and driven thousands more to join the country's swelling refugee population - already estimated at more than 1.5 million. Meanwhile, aid groups have found themselves targets in the fighting across the country...