Then you just have to take your chances which is the tricky bit

Then you just have to take your chances, which is the tricky bit.For the past 15 years, I’ve lived in Covent Garden, surrounded by chaos and possibility It’s beautiful I’m surprised not everyone wants to live here The expensive parts of London are so suburban and one-uppy. It’s an exciting place for anyone: there are always more encounters to be had, more places to go, more surprises, more pizza – and that’s if you’re my mum! If you’re in the best goddam rock’n'roll band in the world, the pleasure potential is positively stupefying.
Big cities are the places to have the best fun It took a while to work that out. Pizza of the gods for a couple of bucks a slice, but the posh places are ghastly There’s never time to eat in New York, anyway On tour, leaving that city is always a wrench. Breakfast aside, London’s West End has got to be about the worst place in the entire world to eat cheaply.

If he could not sound sincere in his convictions, there was only one conclusion to be drawn. He has none.In lesser American elections there is a style of oratory that has enabled many an inadequate candidate to fool many an unsophisticated audience. It also helps those who believe that the best antidote to political speechmaking is sleep. It is called bomfog; short for the “brotherhood of man and the fellowship of God”. A bomfog speech is an orotund collection of sonorous and interchangeable platitudes.That was John Kerry on Thursday night: It was high-grade bomfog, to be sure, the best on the market, but bomfog none the less.

This would be a bomfog president in a dangerous, treacherous era, the sort of world in which the “fog” bit could easily turn into a mushroom cloud
More from Bruce Anderson. John Kerry had several months to prepare for last Thursday evening. He knew that it would be the most important speech which he would ever make, and he is not a stupid man. He knows that there are occasions on which you can only arrive at safety first via the battlefield. Mr Bush now has to find a middle-American translation for that wisest of Latin tags: if you want peace, prepare for war.That message may seem hard to sell, but it does express George Bush’s deepest convictions.