Boris Watch

He may have run scared of Time Out’s Mayoral debate a year ago, but Boris has now agreed to be interviewed by them in a few weeks’ time for (I assume) their Mayor Boris anniversary edition at the start of May.
The best part of this is that we can all go to Time Out’s web [...]

While we’re waiting for the online answers, here are a couple of choice questions:
1: Val Shawcross with her usual boot-in-groin moment:
Question number    0479/2009
Meeting date    25/02/2009
Question by Valerie Shawcross
Do you regret falsely claiming that bendy buses “wipe out cyclists, there are many cyclists killed every year by them”?
2: Ominous sounds – when Tories conduct ‘reviews’ they [...]

The final crime figures for 2008 are out now, which allows us to complete our graph for the year and show a continuing decline in the London murder rate starting in early 2005.

The total for the month of December was 8, which is historically tiny.  However, you may remember this comment on last month’s statistics [...]

Quick note for Twitter users: channel4news are soliciting questions for Alex Thomson to put to Boris in Beijing later today. Why not give them some suggestions?

Boris will be putting in an appearance on BBC London tomorrow evening, Friday 6 June, at 6.30pm on BBC One.
They’re soliciting questions for the presenter to put to Boris: e-mail yours to yourlondon@bbc.co.uk now!
And if you need any inspiration, Dave Hill’s list’s not a bad starting point.