Boris Watch

Having discovered that even the Express gets things right sometimes, I’m going to base this post on the assumption that the following two statments from the Daily Mail web site are accurate.
The Reverend Chris Newlands, chaplain to the Bishop of Chelmsford, said: "The Bishop of Barking did speak face to face with the Mayor at [...]

Dave Hill’s uncovering more holes in things Ray Lewis has been saying:

He isn’t and has never been a magistrate
Newham Council isn’t funding his Academy any more

Unfortunately I’m out for the rest of this evening. I trust my fellow Boris-Watchers will keep an eye on things.
I’m looking forward to the Tory Troll’s report from [...]

On the Today programme, Boris was asked questions about a memorandum of understanding, which pledges that Londoners, in the case of Olympic overspending, will not suffer from an “increase in the Council Tax precept or an increase in Fares”.
Boris “ha[dn't] seen” the document, but was sure that it was “not central to the issue“. Later, [...]

Following the Rise revelations, Munira Mirza has been rushed into action with an article for Comment is Free. Titled ‘Doing anti-racism for real’, it appears to be a poorly veiled attempt to discredit its promotion.
The article is in quotes and my comments are bolded.
“To give some background: in 1996 the Trades Union Congress and various [...]

Further to Mr. Stop Boris’ post on Rise: London United Against Racism comes the news that Boris only tells certain people certain things. Here’s the official press release on this year’s festival:
The Rise festival is a free event organised by the Greater London Authority and supported by Canary Wharf, Transport for London, British Transport Police [...]

Boris didn’t just change his tune on bendy buses in that Marr interview. His line on the bottles of wine apparently stashed away in City Hall subtly altered itself too.
Have a look at yesterday’s article in the Torygraph where the story broke. Here’s the original quote:
“They were very fine bottles left behind by Mayor Livingstone. [...]

Tom’s already provided a run-down on the web coverage of today’s Mayoral press conference, but I was delighted to see that even the mainstream TV media are making their unimpressed feelings known about Boris’s pathetic press conference plans.
This is the man who was elected on a promise to improve accountability and transparency. He was also [...]

The Tory Troll points out this morning that Boris has broken another of his campaign promises.
Like all his carefully learned campaign lines, I lost count of the number of times I heard Boris assure us that "from day one" he would ensure that "every pound spent" by the GLA was put online for public inspection, [...]

I have no doubt there’ll be plenty more to be said about today’s Mayor’s Question Time – Boris’s first – but I just wanted to point out the one indisputable lie I’ve seen that he came out with during proceedings, as shown on BBC London today.
In some sort of context at least loosely related to [...]

How many times during the campaign did we have to listen to Boris lecturing us on how Ken had once said "only some sort of ghastly, dehumanised moron would get rid of the Routemaster", then done so himself; and how Boris Johnson, knight in shining armour, would be riding to the rescue with a new [...]