Boris Watch

Glad to see that Jeremy Smyles is still going:

(I, on the other hand, have been contemplating calling it a day while my cloak’s intact. Goodbye, if so.)

I haven’t blogged in ages. All the action’s over on Twitter these days [although I think Tom’s the main tweeter through our account, for clarity], as this quick post perhaps shows.
The RMT’s calling yet another strike. Boris has tweeted:
Can’t believe the RMT leadership. Urging a strike in this economic climate is simply monstrous.

(Apparently it took [...]

Boris the turtle – from MayorOfLondon’s TwitPic
Dave Hill’s been doing a lot of excellent coverage on the fallout of the G20 policing: his blog is highly recommended reading.
The key Boris-related theme this week has been the near-total silence of the Mayor on this subject.
From the man who merrily stuck his oar [...]

We’ve recently been reminded that, for our delightful Mayor, conspiracy to commit assault is a ‘colourful tale from the past’ when the perpetrators are Boris and his old chum, giving the impression to Freeborn John, the blogger who released the Darius Guppy tape to Channel 4, that “Johnson does not feel that petty bourgeois morality [...]

Hélène Mulholland at guardian.co.uk reports that the obvious contradiction between Boris’s policies encouraging more pollution by axing the third phase of the Low Emission Zone (not to mention the removal of the Congestion Charge Western Extension Zone) and the legal obligation for the UK to cut pollution in London or face huge fines from the [...]

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 [...]

He may have run scared of Time Out’s Mayoral debate a year ago, but Boris has now agreed to be interviewed by them in a few weeks’ time for (I assume) their Mayor Boris anniversary edition at the start of May.
The best part of this is that we can all go to Time Out’s web [...]

As it’s the weekend, and without wanting to overshadow any of the proper posts below, here’s a caption competition featuring a screen capture from this evening’s BBC London:

There’s no prize. Times is ’ard.
Update: anglonoel prompted me to do this:

Sorry about that.

If you’re anything like me – and I don’t mean to cast aspersions on you, I’m sure you’re not – you may have been wondering how the result of the vote on which ten parks to give a bucket of cash to compared with the results of the Mayoral election, or indeed levels of deprivation, [...]