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Tunnel Vision - Boris Takes On The Metropolitan Police

June 9th, 2008 2 Comments

Here’s an interesting transport decision that somehow escaped the notice of TfL’s press office, yet has nevertheless made it to that august journal, the News Shopper, which I read for the fatstock prices:
IN ANOTHER reversal of policy, new London Mayor Boris Johnson has agreed to restore the tidal flow arrangements to the Blackwall Tunnel.
The tidal [...]

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Max Hastings on Boris and the Booze

June 9th, 2008 1 Comment

In passing, in an article about sleaze:
London mayor Boris Johnson’s counter-squib, that the discovery of 29 bottles of Châteauneuf du Pape in Ken Livingstone’s former office represented “a stash of fine wines” was risible - the Bullingdon Club uses Châteauneuf as paintstripper.
Ho ho ho.

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