Boris Watch

The Tory Troll reports that the latest batch of publicity for the approaching Rise festival now features a quote from Boris claiming it “is still an anti-racist event”. It seems between the various people making decisions for him, they can’t quite agree on the nuances of their message here.
The latest news here is that apparently [...]

From the comments on my previous post it sounds like tonight’s BBC London footage [relevant clip starts 43 seconds in] hadn’t aired before and therefore came as just as much of a shock to everyone else as it did to me and Mrs. Stop Boris (who picked her jaw up off the floor in time [...]

In the wake of what it wouldn’t surprise me to find the mainstream media calling Memorandumgate, BBC London tonight finally noticed that Boris might not actually be in control of his brief, shall we say.
They just ran a rather revealing report, which contained astonishing footage I hadn’t previously seen (although I was in Scotland when [...]

Dave Hill alerts me that the long-running festival sometimes referred to as “Kenstock”, but more officially known as “Rise: London United Against Racism”, seems to have been rebranded this year, to remove all references to opposing racism.
When I made the Rise-based Stop Boris campaign poster in March, I must admit I didn’t seriously entertain the possibility [...]