Boris Watch

An attempt to enhance the accountability of the new London mayoralty

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Caption competition

June 8th, 2008 17 Comments

A bit of fun for a Sunday morning. Come on, Boris-watchers, do your worst with this beauty, captured from this morning’s Andrew Marr Show:

(The first person whose entry consists only of the word "Exterminate!" gets devoured by Vashta Nerada.)
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Whoops! Half a million pounds slips past Boris

June 8th, 2008 4 Comments

A disappointingly under-briefed Andrew Marr interviewed Boris this morning on his BBC One show, overlooking the Income Support claimants’ bus fare-doubling, the reneging on various campaign promises, and many other controversies.
However, he did raise with him the near-half-million pounds spent on his transition team of ‘consultants’. This money is raining down on the people that [...]

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What’s Boris learnt so far? Rubbish!

June 7th, 2008 2 Comments

Tonight’s appearance on BBC London was interesting – perhaps more interesting than I currently have time to do justice to. If any fellow Boris-watchers want to see what they missed, I recommend watching the interview on the BBC web site.
The overwhelming thing that came across to me was that he hasn’t updated his interview technique [...]

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Literally watch Boris

May 17th, 2008 7 Comments

While personally I quite enjoy the occasional edition of Politics Scotland, especially its utterly mismatched pumping dance music theme tune, I must admit that I’ve never quite got into BBC Parliament’s other non-Westminster coverage. Until, that is, this coming bank holiday Monday:
Mayor’s Question Time BBC Parliament (Freeview 81, Sky 504, [...]

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