Boris Johnson's Blog, page 46
July 11, 2011
Blappp! It hurts to say it, but we owe a great debt to paintballing
He didn't even look old enough to pay the congestion charge. I have now retired to nurse my injuries in some Surrey gastropub, while the younger generation continue their happy mimesis of war. As I wait for my lunch, I am thinking about the role of paintball in the UK economy, and the relative importance [...]
July 10, 2011
We owe a great debt to paintballing
He didn't even look old enough to pay the congestion charge. I have now retired to nurse my injuries in some Surrey gastropub, while the younger generation continue their happy mimesis of war. As I wait for my lunch, I am thinking about the role of paintball in the UK economy, and the relative importance [...]
July 4, 2011
Wimbledon 2011: Game, set and tax – why Andy Murray will always get clobbered
Poor old Andy Murray. He was only a ginger whisker away. It was just a shot, they say, that barred him from the glory of the Wimbledon final. We all saw the moment in the second set when he had Nadal pinned and wriggling, with the whole of the right hand court exposed. All Andy [...]
July 2, 2011
Boris derails Cameron's 'perverse' £34billion high-speed link
Mr Johnson goes on to spell out his objections to the current plan – including "significant environmental concerns", particularly moves to send the route at ground level through Ealing and on a an elevated section at Hillingdon. "It is perverse that a section of the route through Greater London, clearly affecting large numbers of people, [...]
June 27, 2011
Shakespeare, torchbearer for the Chinese way of doing things
His popularity survived the revolution to the point where it is acceptable for a communist leader to hail Shakespeare, not as a bourgeois reactionary, not as an imperialist capitalist running dog, but as the greatest writer who ever lived. When you stop to think about Shakespeare's prevailing ideology, it is easy to see why. Think [...]
June 20, 2011
Boris Johnson: we should support armed services
Mayor of London Boris Johnson attends flag-raising ceremony to mark the forthcoming Armed Forces Day.
June 19, 2011
The greatest gift to the Greeks might be to let them go it alone
Bail-outs and austerity measures are only making the country's burden harder to bear , writes Boris Johnson.
June 15, 2011
Ignore this rain, it's the drought that we need to think about
A network of canals is needed to carry water from the wet North to the dry South, writes Boris Johnson.
April 22, 2011
A long-overdue redesign and tinkering
The site's geeky workings have been neglected for a little too long. So now, behold a new design and an upgraded forum. It should make contributing to the site more user-friendly.
April 13, 2011
This News of the World scandal
~~~~~ There's something not quite right about it ~~~~~ "Oh come off it. This is starting to get silly," writes Boris Johnson in his article this week for The Daily Telegraph. Starting with the Royal Family, then Gordon Brown and a few 'celebrities', the News of the World telephone-hacking scandal has spread, we are told, [...]
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