Boris Watch

Remember the Forensic Audit Panel? They’re Boris’ crack squad of independent figures appointed to root through the previous regime’s finances - two of whom lead Tory Councils. And, it emerges, a third is simply a party member:
Patience Wheatcroft
1(a)(ii)(cc) – I am a member of or hold a position of general control or management of the [...]

The Standard is now reporting that the Bishop of Barking did not, in fact, converse with the Mayor on Ray Lewis’s mysterious misdeeds. The Reverend Chris Newlands, chaplain to the Bishop of Chelmsford, which includes the Barking diocese, has said that:
“I had a conversation with the Bishop of Barking and that is what he told [...]

It’s becoming increasingly clear that when Andrew Gilligan sits to write a column, he removes the glasses displayed in his byline photograph and dons a pair of rose-tinted spectacles.
He can be an excellent journalist, but his self-proclaimed ‘war with Ken‘ seems to have led to something altogether more amicable with Boris. Though journalists are never [...]

Having discovered that even the Express gets things right sometimes, I’m going to base this post on the assumption that the following two statments from the Daily Mail web site are accurate.
The Reverend Chris Newlands, chaplain to the Bishop of Chelmsford, said: "The Bishop of Barking did speak face to face with the Mayor at [...]