Well then, what did you make of Boris Johnson playing to the electoral gallery and saying he would not allow “Kosovo-style social cleansing” in London, amid a row over housing benefit reforms? Many London MPs are concerned the £400-a-week cap will force people out of the city and the Conservative mayor […]

Well, if you’re counting the politically correct tickboxes then (half) Black, (half) Jewish, Woman, Idiot gets you the full house. The same tokenistic idea of tickboxes, incidentally, which the Human Bouncy Castle, Diane Abbott, is blatantly using to leverage her pointless campaign to lead the Labour Party. And if you […]

Boris Johnson is on superb form in the Telegraph today: “What crouton of substance did Clegg offer last Thursday, in the opaque minestrone of waffle? He wants to get rid of Trident. Great! So Lib Dem foreign policy means voluntarily resigning from the UN Security Council, abandoning all pretensions to […]

Thanks to ‘banned’ in the Comments thread on the Newsnight post below for posting a link to this YouTube clip – that interview but with subtitles for the hard of understanding. Visit him here; highly recommended blogging.

It was a classic bout. The fight of the decade, the clash of the titans: Johnson -vs- Paxman, duking it out for the World Heavyweight Title in Manchester. It didn’t even get to the judges. Paxman jabbed and weaved but The Hair From Henley had the measure of his opponent […]

Boris Johnson pens on occasion for the Daily Telegraph; a £250,000pa part-time job the Mayor of London famously described as “chicken feed“. Today he produces a column slating the infamous public sector “non job” industry and and calling for them to be slashed. So far, so sensible. However he’s come […]