Boris Watch

An attempt to enhance the accountability of the new London mayoralty

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Evening Boris strikes again

August 19th, 2008 5 Comments

I’ve been in central London quite a lot lately (as well as generally all over the place for weeks, which is why I’ve not been doing much in the way of blogging lately), so I’ve been delighted to be reacquainted with the horrors of the Evening Standard display boards.
Last Friday I couldn’t move for being [...]

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Surprise! FAP report finds nothing, unless you read about it in the right-wing press

July 16th, 2008 7 Comments

In the least gobsmacking news in recent history, the ‘Forensic’ ‘Audit’ ‘Panel’ are today publishing their ‘investigation’s’ findings, which appear to amount to very little, but predictably that’s not how they’ve spun them in advance to right-wing ‘newspaper’ the Telegraph.
The Tory Troll gives the story the coverage it deserves.
Update: Lee Jasper has responded to the [...]

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Ken and Ali ♥ Boris Watch

June 30th, 2008 1 Comment

From this afternoon’s LBC 97.3 programme, during a discussion about their common enemy, the right-wing press, between Ken Livingstone and his guest, Alistair Campbell:
Ken: It’s quite interesting at the moment, since Boris Johnson became Mayor, there’s been a real flurry of blogs, on the internet, and in actual fact, they’re doing a much better job [...]

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Forensic spin

June 8th, 2008 No Comments

Boris’s Tory Cronies LDA Hatchet Job Panel – he calls it the Forensic Audit Panel for short – has published its Interim Report today.
It’s a pathetic three pages long, but despite that I don’t actually have time to look at it properly myself today. It does appear to contain approximately nothing of any significance at [...]

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