, < Regeneration, < New Start editorial index page Ken Livingstone, it was revealed this week, hasn’t flushed his toilet after urinating for the last 15 months. His point, it seems, is that by doing what appears to come effortlessly to half the population, he’s helping to save the planet and leading by example. It may be frightening how quickly political assets turn into liabilities, but it shouldn’t come as any surprise. Those who remember the dying days of the Thatcher and Major administrations shouldn’t be shocked as history repeats itself, albeit with an infinite variety of new twists.