And so the historic trans-metropolitan summit that was the meeting between London mayor Boris Johnson and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg occurred, and all Bloomberg got was ... a lousy T-shirt.

Sorry. Journalistic licence. It wasn’t a T-shirt at all, it was a button-down shirt imprinted with a map of the London underground system. According to all reports, however, Bloomberg was fairly nonplussed by the item. He did, after all, give his counterpart a crystal Big Apple. Maybe he was expecting a fountain pen.