Boris Watch

The best advertised, best attended event Boris Johnson has set up since he’s been Mayor was the Last Orders on the Underground tube drinking party, and he set that one up by accident.
Perhaps a lesson there on how to advertise and how to pick events that people actually want to go to?

We’re currently in the middle of the Story Of London, a month-long “festival” intended to celebrate the city’s past, present and future. The GLA website promises hundreds of events taking place across London, so wherever you are in the capital, you’ll find an event near you. However, I’ve failed abysmally in finding even one event [...]

This week I’ve been making like a tourist. My first stop yesterday was the wonderful London Transport Museum in tourist hot-spot Covent Garden to visit the A View Of London exhibition. Fortunately, I’m a Friend of the Museum which entitles me to free entry, otherwise it would have cost me £10 to see the exhibition. [...]

I’m sure that, like me, you’ve been agog to see the line-up of exciting events promised for the Mayor’s Story Of London Festival . For the past month or so I’ve been collecting leaflets from various museums and other London attractions which have featured events with the Story Of London logo, and every couple of [...]