Boris Watch

We’ve said before that the rules of debendification are simple - Boris has to ditch one of his frequently stated commitments:

Phase out bendy buses
Pursue value for money at TfL
Reduce congestion

We’ve also assumed that he’ll debendify regardless of the evidence, because he’s stuck up a gum tree by his own campaign spin and related Gilligoonery.  So [...]

The Evening Standard started an annual list of the 1000 most ‘influential’ Londoners last October, so today saw the publication of the second list.
I don’t have the full list – that involves paying them money – but I can compare their online coverage of the two lists. Can you detect any changes in tone since [...]

In the least gobsmacking news in recent history, the ‘Forensic’ ‘Audit’ ‘Panel’ are today publishing their ‘investigation’s’ findings, which appear to amount to very little, but predictably that’s not how they’ve spun them in advance to right-wing ‘newspaper’ the Telegraph.
The Tory Troll gives the story the coverage it deserves.
Update: Lee Jasper has responded to the [...]

Boris’s Tory Cronies LDA Hatchet Job Panel – he calls it the Forensic Audit Panel for short – has published its Interim Report today.
It’s a pathetic three pages long, but despite that I don’t actually have time to look at it properly myself today. It does appear to contain approximately nothing of any significance at [...]