Boris Watch

Ah, there’s one.

Boris’s aversion to tall buildings was never particularly strong, but plenty of people who don’t particularly like the idea of change and modernity might well have expected otherwise.  How, then, should we react to the news that a major redevelopment of Ealing town centre has been given the green light?  Personally I’m modestly in favour, [...]

(I’ve been writing this in dribs and drabs this afternoon and Tom’s beaten me to the thrust of it, with more panache of course, so feel free to skip over this one for his post instead…)
Listeners to this lunchtime’s World at One on BBC Radio 4 were treated to Boris attempting to coin a new [...]

All it takes is a bit of snow and Boris lets the inner petrolhead loose.  First off, no bendy buses are running.  Can we declare that part of the manifesto commitment met, now, and move on?
ALL ROUTES IN THE LONDON AREA: Most London Buses services are not operating due to adverse weather conditions. Reduced services [...]

While Boris is in Davos, we turn our attention to a brewing revert-war (there’s a new phrase to me) over Mr. Andrew Gilligan’s wikipedia entry.  In the blue corner, a suspiciously familar-sounding contributor calling himself ‘Sandler151′ is simultaneously making pro-Gilligan edits to this one page and refusing to allow any inference or allegation or reference [...]