Phil Taylor, occasional commentator on Dave Hill and even more occasionally here, is a Conservative councillor in West London.  Quite how he’s risen to this level while displaying the unerring instinct for gaffes that I’ve witnessed so far quite escapes me, except that I used to live in his ward and these days they’d happily [...]

It’s been common thread of my Boris Watching that the most interesting early conflicts in his Mayoralty would come when the fantasy and exaggeration of the Conservative campaign came up against reality [for a quick primer, try here, here, here and here].  What’s usually happened is that Boris will [...]