A politician by any other name

James Perry

I have written before about British politicians such as Gideon 'George' Osborne, Alexander 'Boris' Johnson and John 'Vince' Cable who for some reason don't want to go under their given names, as if they were hiding from their creditors.

But it is not just a British phenomenon; I now learn that the front runner for Republican Presidential Candidate, Rick Perry, is in fact called James.

PS his wife is called Anita Thigpen, which nobody could have made up.