This week saw Romney’ aura slip as Newt win South Carolina, tensions with Iran tighten as the US and Europe blocked oil imports, and Scottish independence take a bit step forward. However, my face of the week for this week relates to none of these stories. Like most, if not all, observers, I thrilled as Britain’s most popular elected official effectively launched his re-election campaign:

Between lobbying for a new airport in the Thames estuary, planning fresh tunnels under the Thames in Greenwich and criticising the unemployed youth of today (a population which includes your humble author) as being too feckless and lazy to find work, London’s Mayor Boris Johnston has been ubiquitous this week. As often happens to elected officials, he swiftly found that the more people see him, the less they like him, but he remains likely to regain the nomination simply by tilting at his own party from the left. Another four years of dealing with the finesse of bus policy beckons.

Congratulations Boris Johnson, my Face of the Week!