Boris Watch

I must be going senile.  Damian Hockney, the ex-Tory, ex-UKIP, ex-Veritas and now very much ex-Assembly member has written a really rather good article at Mayorwatch on how the new London Assembly is even more supine than the last one, which isn’t saying a lot.  The Assembly isn’t designed to be able to do much [...]

So much for Big Tent Boris and the new caring, green, cuddly Tory Party.  The latest batch of Deputy Mayors has been announced and even a brief google research into the grim coterie of right wing flotsam the new Mayor has chosen to lord it over us suggests it’s going to be a long four [...]

In The Independent, Andrew Gilligan is fuming at the suggestion that the Evening Standard - to quote Stephen Fry, ‘as grossly partisan as is permissible without actually dropping pretence and coming out as a Tory Party broadsheet’ - ‘won it for Boris’. His stories were, he writes, ‘factual and measured, thoroughly and transparently sourced’. The [...]

Sunny Hundal at Liberal Conspiracy has spotted quite a few Boris watching sites out there, and makes the very useful point that with the press either expecting their reward for supporting Johnson’s campaign or in full honeymoon mode, it’s only us rank amateurs who can actually take up the mantle of checking up on the [...]