Boris Johnson's Blog, page 37

London Olympics 2012: here’s 20 jolly good reasons to feel cheerful about the Games

5. We have just stunned the world with what was the best opening ceremony ever produced – and by quite a margin. Danny Boyle’s filmic mixture of Blake, Dickens, Tolkien, JK Rowling etc etc has confirmed London’s status as the global capital of a...

Here’s 20 jolly good reasons to feel cheerful about the Games

5. We have just stunned the world with what was the best opening ceremony ever produced – and by quite a margin. Danny Boyle’s filmic mixture of Blake, Dickens, Tolkien, JK Rowling etc etc has confirmed London’s status as the global capital of a...

London 2012 Olympics: The Queen loved her acting debut, says Boris Johnson

Mr Johnson was talking after escorting the Queen on a tour of the Olympic Park, where Her Majesty visited Team GB athletes.


Fresh from her starring role alongside James Bond actor Daniel Craig in last night's opening ceremony, the Queen was shown a...

Olympics: Boris Johnson becomes national treasure as he brings ping pong home

“I say this respectfully to our Chinese hosts who have excelled so magnificently at ping pong: ping pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century. It was. And it was called wiff waff.
“And there I think you have the essenti...

London 2012 Olympics: Boris delights crowd at Hyde Park torch relay party

At the Hyde Park concert which welcomed the torch to its final Olympic cauldron before the Opening Ceremony, the Mayor of London rallied the crowd's excitement for the Games.


"The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter of Olympo-m...

Tour de France: True athletes like Bradley Wiggins can inspire us to a brighter future

It is all too hilariously accurate. We Olympic committee types really do sit around and talk about “legacy”, “sustainability”, “diversity”, “inclusivity” and “multiculturality”, and contained within those woolly abstracts are of co...

True athletes like Bradley Wiggins can inspire us to a brighter future

It is all too hilariously accurate. We Olympic committee types really do sit around and talk about “legacy”, “sustainability”, “diversity”, “inclusivity” and “multiculturality”, and contained within those woolly abstracts are of co...

London 2012 Olympics: ‘We’ve got better restaurants than Paris and less rain than Rome’, says Boris Johnson

The Mayor of London described London's triumphs and advantages in a speech outlining further details of the Olympic torch relay in London, which comes to the capital on July 20.


"I do hope that you will fan out around London and you will discover a...

To avoid the Olympic weather forecast, please look away now

Maybe it was time to call upon the sun god Ra, or Phoebus Apollo, or Sol Victrix, or whatever name he now goes by, and lift our hands in chanting entreaty. Come on, O thou fiery spirit that animates the world. Come on out from wherever you are hiding....

Stop bashing the bankers – we have no future without them

So let me give you some unadulterated good news about the British economy. It is a story of enterprise and dynamism and young thrusters making their dreams come true. I am talking about a cutting-edge sector that is already employing tens of thousand...