Article: HIRSUTES YOU SIR; PAUL ROUTLEDGE, once-proud owner of a bushy red beard, on why mayoral hopeful Frank Dobson would be wrong to shave his trademark facial hair.(News)

DON'T do it Frank! Don't listen to the image-makers who want to cut off your manhood!

I refer, of course, to the Father Christmas beard sported by London mayoral candidate Frank Dobson.

New Labour's spin doctors want him to shave it off to make him more appealing to the voters.

Really? I would sooner trust a man who sticks to his beard than Ken Livingstone, who shaved off his Romeo-tash a couple of years ago ...

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