Boris Watch

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Boris fritters another £40,000 away

July 10th, 2008 7 Comments

The Tory Troll explains how our ‘Value for Money’ Mayor has taken another great decision: to spend £40,000 on a new London.gov.uk web site, to replace the perfectly functional and usable existing web site.
Accessible and standards-based web design is something of a specialist subject for me so I’ll be interested to see what London gets [...]

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A new ‘Number One Priority’ for Boris?

June 24th, 2008 5 Comments

He’s certainly actioning this more quickly than many of the things he’s applied that label to, anyway:
Brian Coleman: When will the Mayor of London arrange for a portrait of the Queen to be hung in City Hall?
Mayor Johnson: I have asked officers to make the necessary arrangements.

(The answer is only in the PDF at time [...]

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