Boris Johnson's Blog, page 50

The BBC Trust

"The extent to which the audience feels its trust betrayed … bodes ill for the BBC.  In the long term the loser will be public-sector broad­casting itself ;  the winners the revengists of 'old' New Labour."




Dr Robert Frew reflects on the role of the BBC Trust
BBC Trust Chairman Sir Michael Lyons has recently revealed he will [...]

Demand for New Homes

Watch out, folks, we are about to be hit by a snowstorm of economic data. So put on your goggles and look out for the one big hurtling fact that really matters. The key point you need to remember during this week's spending announcements is that the population of the UK is set to rise [...]

Where next for climate change ?

Prof. Hal W. Lewis


resigns from the American Physical Society


Resignation letter cites fraud across the field



… the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, … has corrupted so many scientists …  It is the greatest and most successful pseudo­scientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.  …



As regular [...]

University Tuition Fees

It is no use expecting the universities to sort all this out by going to 18-year-olds and dangling bursaries in front of them, if those 18-year-olds have long since been let down by the educational system, or if they have concluded that university is not for them
If the omens are right, this could be an [...]

The Tube Strike

I address myself directly this morning to the three million people – including many readers – who use the London Underground network; and I have no inhibitions whatever in focusing on these passengers, because the irritation they are experiencing as a result of industrial action is not only disgraceful, but an omen for the entire [...]

Ed Miliband : same school ; different road

Ed (left) and David Miliband

Labour's new leader looks like being under the thumb of the unions — harking back to the bad old days of the 1970s, says Boris Johnson.
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It is an unsettling fact that I went to the same school as the party leader.  Indeed, there are some people who have taken [...:]

Quotes of the week …

… ending 25th. September 2010

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As he accepted the leadership of the British Labour Party at its annual conference Ed Miliband said —
"I get it and I understand the need to change.  I need to unify the party and I will."

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Addressing the [...:]

Quotes of the week …

… ending 25th. September 2010

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As he accepted the leadership of the British Labour Party at its annual conference Ed Miliband said —

"I get it and I understand the need to change.  I need to unify the party and I will."


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Addressing the general [...]

Meeting the Pope at Heathrow

 No wonder we had a complex. No wonder we had always been divided in our feelings towards continental Europe. We had a deep childhood sense of rejection

There we were on the tarmac at Heathrow as the papal jet prepared to land. The cameras were trained on the night sky. The red carpet was rolled out. [...:]

Our borders should be tight, not closed

I like to think I have campaigned pretty consistently against pointless quotas and restrictions
Sheesh. Cool it, folks. I know that from time to time this column has scandalised some readers with its laissez-faire approach. I opposed the ban on fox-hunting. I had a pop at mandatory booster seats for 10-year-olds and warnings on wine bottles [...:]