London: Mayor & More

How Boris Won

From the Press Gazette:

"The Daily Telegraph’s Three Line Whip editor, Jonathan Isaby, has teamed up with BBC journalist Giles Edwards to pen Boris v Ken, How Boris Johnson Won London. The collaboration details how the recently elected Mayor of London went from being 'a TV personality-cum-politician to the man with the biggest electoral mandate in the UK'. The book claims to be a 'fun and accessible' account of the election campaign, looking at the politics, candidates and the results, as well as what it all means for Londoners."

Be sure to send me a review copy, chaps.

Johnson's Second Press Conference

Today's piping hot live action begins at 10.00 on the 9th floor of City Hall where Mayor Johnson will take questions from the media for the second time. Don't blink or you'll miss it - he only gives us half an hour.

Happy In His Work?

High Holborn, Wednesday afternoon.

Have I Got News For You

A columnist writes:

"Then there was that car crash on the Today programme, when London's new First Citizen didn't seem to have read the memorandum on which he was being questioned - a performance symptomatic, it is alleged, of a broader carelessness about boring-but-important details, such as appointments, salaries, and costs. And a little earlier, there was the row about the downgrading of the anti-racist element of the Rise festival."

Hold on: "Didn't seem to have read" the memorandum? Surely: "Doubted the very existence of"? And that "alleged...broader carelessness"? Wasn't the Rise episode a further symptom of that? Like, not even knowing that the downgrading of the anti-racist element had taken place? Facts are so important, don't you think?

A Regenerated Londoner?

Suspicious mind, that Troll.