Boris Watch

An attempt to enhance the accountability of the new London mayoralty

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Oh Dear Lord

May 10th, 2008 6 Comments

If Lord Brocket - convicted fraud, old Etonian and absolute cretin - is given public money then Britain will, in the words of Peter Cook, ’sink giggling into the sea’.
Boris, employing a fraud would hardly the best way to ‘target sleaze’, and if you’re really concerned about transport then you won’t involve the presenter [...]

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Next Stop On The ‘Global Itinery Of Apology?’

May 10th, 2008 2 Comments

The Telegraph reports that Boris had been given a new opportunity to test his diplomatic skills as Mayor. Seasoned Johnsonians may remember that after the poisoning of the former spy Alexander Litvinenko, Boris portrayed Moscow as a place where one could be killed “in coffee lounges just because [one has] been mildly disobliging to the [...]

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