Boris Watch

Apparently the BBC’s London political editor Tim Donovan didn’t go out with Boris on his dredger last week.  We already know that Dave Hill wasn’t invited.  Who was?  Well, here’s a clue:
Speaking to The Sunday Times aboard a dredger, Johnson vowed to continue to oppose the expansion of Heathrow. He also confirmed that he aims [...]

KentOnline have an article on Boris and Nick’s fact-finding trip with some locals giving the Mayor the benefit of their advice:

why doesent he buld this airport in his back garden , or doesent want the plane,s flying over his home, what a prat
What the point of pouring concrete into the sea and blighting our country [...]

A couple of weeks ago Lynne Featherstone called the fire brigade after her boiler gave out a noise “a bit like a pneumatic drill / burglar alarm – but worse“. Curiously, this has sent Brian Coleman – noted royalist, taxi connoisseur and chairman of London’s fire authority – into a rage…
“She has shown herself to [...]

Just how many “partners” can one guy have? (And did you see what Boris was eating for breakfast this morning?)
Update:
We should thank Simon Fletcher for a kind (if possibly optimistic) mention in this CiF article *gazes wistfully across the tumbleweed-strewn wasteland in search of politicians and journalists*.
He’s right that liberal and leftish writers are currently [...]

Shorter Andrew Gilligan: “People who write on the internet are sad and have no lives! LOL!“

Another highlight from Boris’s Telegraph column:
“When we look at our options, and you think of the lasting benefits of infrastructure investment, you can see that even in little old Britain we have some stunning opportunities, of a scale not seen for a generation.
“There is Crossrail, 75 miles of track finally providing a link between Heathrow [...]

The Mirror reports that, despite his silly apology for that article, Boris still isn’t sold on the “broken society” claims.
David Cameron, of course, has been their most forthright proponent, and has spoken, vomit-inducingly, of “anarchy in the UK“. He may be interested to know, then, that…
“This is a very, very safe city. There is a [...]

A spokesman has ‘clarified’ Boris’s ‘piffle’ remarks:
“”These are the qualities he is keen to encourage in teenagers across London, where a lack of purpose, discipline and self-esteem lead many to wasted lives and violence.
“David Cameron is right to highlight that serious and destructive social breakdown.
“Politicians who pretend there is not a problem are [...]

Without wishing to distract you from the hawt news of today, and Tom’s careers advice notwithstanding, Boris’s latest Telegraph column is rather interesting:
“If you believe the British press, the youth of today is aimless, feckless and hopeless, addicted to their PlayStations, lacking in respect and lacking in the emotional discipline needed to cope with a [...]

Emma Jacobs in the FT:
“Boris Johnson may be well-versed in Latin – he dropped a bit of Virgil’s Aeneid into his first mayor’s Question Time. He may be well-versed in Shakespeare – he cited Romeo and Juliet to the Commons home affairs select committee. “We need to deglamorise knife crime,” he said. “This is [...]