Boris Watch

An attempt to enhance the accountability of the new London mayoralty

Boris Watch header image 5

The Standard Of Journalism…

May 6th, 2008 11 Comments

In The Independent, Andrew Gilligan is fuming at the suggestion that the Evening Standard - to quote Stephen Fry, ‘as grossly partisan as is permissible without actually dropping pretence and coming out as a Tory Party broadsheet’ - ‘won it for Boris’. His stories were, he writes, ‘factual and measured, thoroughly and transparently sourced’. The [...]

Tags:  

Boris Is Mayor - The Reactions

May 5th, 2008 1 Comment

In the days following Boris’s triumph, journalists have been steadily creeping back to their keyboards and offering words of praise or pain. Here, we collect the best, and the most galling, of the commentary.

John Harris is not amused [Comment Is Free]

Chuka Umunna has advice for Ken [Comment is Free]

The Times has an epiphany
Frances Elliot believes [...]

Tags: