Sadiq Khan was a keynote speaker at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, where his talk received a standing ovation "In England he is a diminutive former lawyer whose chief preoccupations are diesel emissions and plastic bottle reuse, but at South By Southwest, the music, film and technology festival and conference, Sadiq Khan was a rock star. His speech at the event in Austin, Texas, this week attracted a queue that snaked around the block, and his keynote address was the talk of a festival more commonly dominated by surprise concerts by rappers. There is a simple reason why the mayor of London has attracted such popularity in America: he stood up to Donald Trump. “The sun hasn’t set in Washington DC yet. This hopefully means no late-night tweets attacking me during the course of this speech,” Mr Khan said, referring to the president’s criticism…

Source: The Times March 16, 2018 00:01 UTC