Boris Watch

Still picking over the Met Police Crime Figure website.  Murders in London by month (black) and five month moving average (red):

The London Borough of Hounslow, where I live, is a pretty peaceful area, generally - low down on the murder list, occasional property crime in the richer areas.  It thus came as no surprise when a local Conservative councillor posted this on our local web forum:
Hounslow Community Safety Partnership has moved to reassure parents, guardians [...]

Good news about David Cameron’s bike:
He was at a Tesco branch on Portobello Road when the bike - which he joked was “an old friend” - disappeared.
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“It’s priceless to me. I’ve done over a thousand miles on it and three sponsored bike rides of 250 miles each, so it’s like an old friend. It’s fantastic.”
Eh?  [...]

Try to spot the connection between the two articles that I’ve quoted from.
Here’s an extract from a 2003 New Statesman column regarding Anthony Browne:
“The Conservative Party is now committed to taking MI5 officers away from these urgent tasks and giving them the drudge work of screening applicants. Duncan Smith and Letwin must know that their [...]