The new mayor of New York seems straight out of the pen of the famous Daily Telegraph humorist, Peter Simple.
Like Mrs. Dutt-Pauker, who symbolized the “Hampstead Liberal,” the typical representative of the United Kingdom’s progressive elites. Mrs. Dutt-Pauker is a very wealthy heiress living in Hampstead, in a mansion called “Marxmount House,” where she collects a pair of Bukharin’s teeth, Ming vases, constructivist art, and Stalin’s writings. Mrs. Dutt-Pauker is in love with Walter Ulbricht, the communist leader of East Germany, and has a son named “Brecht Mao Rudy Che” – in honor of the communist playwright, the Great Chinese Helmsman, the ’68 leader, and Che Guevara.
