Unprompted AND slightly sheepishly, Britain’s local councillors confess surprisingly often to admire Rudy Giuliani. Paul Wells, a Conservative, plucks a beer can from an alleyway in Great Yarmouth, a seaside town, as he mentions the disgraced 1990s-era New York mayor. “Whatever you think about Rudy Giuliani…the reality is that the ‘broken windows’ theory is still fundamentally true. Litter is magnetic, isn’t it?” Alan Connett, a Liberal Democrat in Devon, recalls attending a lecture given by Mr Giuliani 20 years ago. “If you deal with the small stuff, people see it and they notice: potholes, the physical realm in which people live, the tidiness of their community…[if not,] you allow people not to look after their own front door either.”