Boris Watch

An attempt to enhance the accountability of the new London mayoralty

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Does Steve Bell read Boris Watch?

June 30th, 2008 4 Comments

He’s certainly keeping a close eye on Boris’s actions. Here’s today’s cartoon from the back of G2 (excuse it being a low-quality photo: the Guardian haven’t updated Steve Bell’s page since 4 June, and my scanner’s not working):
 
Boris’s withdrawal of London from Mayors for Peace wasn’t very widely reported as far as I’m aware, so [...]

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What’s Boris learnt so far? Rubbish!

June 7th, 2008 2 Comments

Tonight’s appearance on BBC London was interesting – perhaps more interesting than I currently have time to do justice to. If any fellow Boris-watchers want to see what they missed, I recommend watching the interview on the BBC web site.
The overwhelming thing that came across to me was that he hasn’t updated his interview technique [...]

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Boris Johnson: ghastly, dehumanised moron

May 15th, 2008 10 Comments

How many times during the campaign did we have to listen to Boris lecturing us on how Ken had once said "only some sort of ghastly, dehumanised moron would get rid of the Routemaster", then done so himself; and how Boris Johnson, knight in shining armour, would be riding to the rescue with a new [...]

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