front of tourists, shouting: ‘I come from Sheffield in England.’

He caused £450 damage, the court was told.

Small admitted criminal damage, racially aggravated harassment and outraging public decency at the Leicester Square, central London hotel on October 31.

Prosecutor Izolda Switala-Gribbin said: ‘A member of staff by the name of Hassan could see a naked man in the corridor on CCTV. He went with a towel and then escorted him down to reception.

‘Hassan then watched CCTV showing the defendant coming out of a storage cupboard, naked and urinating on the lift door. The defendant could also be seen on CCTV placing a fire extinguisher hose and masturbating at the same time. Hassan called the police.’

Small racially abused the two police officers who arrived.

The court was told Small had travelled fromOn paper, Tim Pawlenty may be the most formidable Republican challenger to President Obama in 2012. Too bad he's running as somebody else.

At this week's first cattle call of the GOP presidential primary, hosted by the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition, Pawlenty, a former Minnesota governor, masqueraded as a local guy on a first-name basis with the group's president, Steve Scheffler. Except Pawlenty thrice called him "Chuck," as in, "I want to thank Chuck," and "Chuck spoke about it today."

Informed of his mistake after the speech, Pawlenty returned to the microphone. "There's a Chuck Scheffler in Minnesota," he explained.

Anybody can botch a name, of course, but Pawlenty's problem is more substantive: As he prepares to seek the presidential nomination, Pawlenty seems to have botched his entire persona.

He's an