Boris Watch

Well, we were all happy to see the back of Tim Parker, but not-worth-the-name-of-a-great-man thinktank the Adam Smith Institute’s blog is not so happy:
Back in May, things were looking good for London, with the arrival of the excellent Tim Parker as a deputy mayor. However, following his resignation last month, the dreams of major reform [...]

I’m reading Christian Wolmar’s history of the London Underground at the moment.  It’s rather good, and has a quote from Ken Livingstone on the back.  Ahem.
Mr. Wolmar wrote an article for the Standard last month which I missed at the time but have just come across while hunting for something else.  He evidently took notes [...]

Good news for those people who thought that the advent of Boris and co. would mean the slashing of bloated Stalinist politically correct budgets, the abolition of Five Year Plans and so on, all to the good of the poor suffering taxpayer.  A prominent politician has cut the LDA’s budget by a whopping £60m.  His [...]

Boris has won a GQ magazine award as Politician of the Year.  Well, since we’re not starting up Yvette Cooper Watch any time soon, it’s not exactly a surprise given his huge media profile this year plus the fact that he used to be GQ’s motoring correspondent.  What did catch my eye was a useful [...]

I’m sure that you’ll all be glad to join me in congratulating Boris on becoming GQ’s Politician of the Year!
What’s that? No, it really isn’t worth eliminating the state over…