Boris Watch

TfL’s budget meeting has, as expected, canned the Greenwich Waterfront Transit and deferred the (rather expensive) Baker Street step-free access project.  The spin is, as usual, so heavy in the air you can taste it:
Step change increase in investment to deliver major milestones for Tube upgrades, Crossrail, the East London Line, DLR and Cycle Hire [...]

A serial-hybrid bendy with hub-mounted motors, expected to enter service in late 2009.  B-b-b-but we keep being told that only Boris can save the planet with his new Routemaster. and now the Germans are ahead of us?  Schweinhund!
The support of politicians and the public sector in the form of subsidies is required to make the [...]

[fark.com via dnotice on Twitter, very NSFW]

Regular readers, and we know where you live, will recall occasional references to a Theory of Boris to describe the psychological and Kremlinological analyses we occasionally do in an attempt to determine why Boris does what he does when he does.  Rather than break things down into, say, a General and a Special Theory of [...]

Darius Guppy tape released?  Increasingly loud suggestions that Boris tells lies (and I’m not talking about Val Shawcross for a change, these are normally supportive sources).  What is going on?  We’ll just have to watch Dispatches tonight, not least because they’re civil enough to give us a link on their webpage and not have Dispatches [...]

Turning to the Evening Standard’s webpage, there’s an interesting picture of a sad balding has-been whose world collapsed last May and whose frequent subsequent ramblings about have been increasingly shrill and out of touch.  Yes, it’s Andrew Gilligan’s byline photograph, on a classic hatchet article about the Starlight Music Academy and Lee Jasper.  Boris has [...]

Rumours from the Railway Eye that Daniel Moylan, recently appointed Deputy Chairman of TfL, might at some point become full Chairman.  Since the current incumbent of that role is Boris Johnson, this would be a major coup for the borough boys, as well as being bad news for transport in London.  Moylan has no discernable [...]

Much shenanigans after my recent post about Boris taking the bend out but keeping the bus.  In it I linked to an online, publicly readable, Google searchable site called The Bus Forum.  Naively, since this is publicly readable, I assumed that the people contributing to it might be aware of this and the usual online [...]

In case anyone was left in any doubt despite Dave Hill’s excellent work here, today’s G2 includes an interview with Sir Alan Sugar from which the following extract is taken:
he doesn’t like jargon, or bureaucracy, or bullshit. Or newspaper stories about him that aren’t true (him running for mayor of London is the most recent [...]

Continuing with my recent trend of not posting anything of any great substance here (sorry – thank goodness for the others, eh?), just thought I’d give you a tip-off that next Monday, 30 March, at 8pm BST, Channel 4 will be screening an hour-long Dispatches programme called The Trouble With Boris, which their web site [...]