Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, 26 April 2013:

“I’m not aware of any threat of any epidemic in London at the moment,” he said. “Take-up of MMR was better here than some other places.”

Professor David Salisbury, the Department of Health’s director of immunisation:

“If Swansea has had close to 1,000 cases, anywhere [...]

John Griffin, Chair of minicab firm Addison Lee, is not happy with the Mayor of London.

During a London air pollution conference today, held at University College London, Griffin made plain that he thinks the Mayor is wasting his time with half-hearted promotion of electric vehicles.

Griffin, a Clean Air Ambassador for Change London, [...]

Spot the difference:

2008: Boris Johnson warmly shakes the hands of Guglielmo Picchi and Raffaele Fantetti, the People of Freedom (Europe Overseas constituency) candidates in the Italian general election.

2012: Boris Johnson warmly shakes the hands of Guglielmo Picchi and Raffaele Fantetti, the People of Freedom (Europe Overseas constituency) [...]

The Surrey Quays to Clapham Junction extension to the London Overground opened on 9 December last. Hurrah, I hear you say, that’ll speed up my journey.

The not-very-popular Talk London section of the Mayor’s website describes it thus:

The completion of tracks between Surrey Quays and Clapham Junction has created a new outer [...]

The facility to use contactless debit or credit cards for fares on London’s buses, originally promised to be operational by the 2012 Olympics, will now be available from tomorrow – not that TfL have bothered to tell anybody, apart from those with registered Oyster cards who received the following email from TfL within the [...]

Boris Johnson will fly to India on 24 November to watch the Second Test commence his “global mission to attract investments” to London. The Mayor will visit Mumbai, Hyderabad and New Delhi and also plans to travel to Brazil, Russia and China in the next few months. He’ll no doubt be claiming ancestry and/or affiliation to [...]

As Tom reports, I paid a visit to Euro Bus Expo 2012 yesterday. Every bus I’ve ever travelled on in London features a sign inside, usually near one of the doors, stating how many passengers the vehicle can legally carry. Not so the prototypes of the New Bus For London. The passenger capacity sticker [...]

Boris Johnson has asked his ex-wife, Allegra Mostyn-Owen, to join his Muslim Engagement Task Force - whatever that may be. As a white, public-school-and-Oxford educated non-Muslim, Allegra’s obviously the ideal candidate. She is, however, married to a Muslim and claims that her name is now Allegra Dilshad Farha Raji Sheikha Jaan Khan [...]

The Mayor of London is still refusing to sign up to the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice on Official Statistics . Despite his then-Deputy Mayor for Dangerous Dogs Policing condemning the use of context-free statistics a mere three months ago, every London borough’s MPS now has its own Twitter account to issue [...]

Boris Johnson was a no-show on the BBC One TV show Sunday Politics today. Kit Malthouse appeared in his stead, claiming that the BBC had known since March that the Mayor would not be appearing, due to a long-standing engagement.

What was this “long-standing engagement” which prevented the Mayor from being questioned on [...]