Bo Jo Lord Mayor of London

This is not, so far as I know, another transport designer's impression of the "New Bus For London" (TfL) or the "21st Century Routemaster with conductors" (B. Johnson, page 2) but a rather lovely doorstop I was given as a Christmas present. Do not, therefore, take its permanently closed rear door as a dire prediction. Indeed, according to communications I received from an informed party on Christmas Eve, that feature of the vehicle Wrightbus...  

Londoners can now compare average rent levels for homes across the capital, using a new interactive website launched by London Mayor, Boris Johnson. The London Rents Map shows the average rents for private accommodation for each postcode area in the capital. Unlike existing search portals which show asking prices posted by estate agents and individuals rather than rents achieved, it is based on actual market rents. This makes it the most...  

My most recent Cif effort began:David Cameron might disagree but Boris Johnson is an unusually reliable politician. I don't mean that in the sense of, say, dependably dodging awkward questions – something the London mayor excels at – but in terms of personal philosophy. He may be cunning, evasive, shameless, ravenous for power and a bare-faced populist, but all this is rooted in a deep intellectual consistency. There is a unity, a wholeness...  

Simon Fletcher, who was Ken Livingstone's chief of staff when he was Mayor, today started work as Labour's London Campaign and Research Director. His job will be to hone and co-ordinate the party's attacks on Livingstone's nemesis in the run-up to next year's general and borough elections. It is a post that needed filling. Boris's track record is now long and distinctive enough to make him a more definable target than he was for most of his...  

Helene Mulholland:Boris Johnson's plans for reducing air pollution in London will not help the government avert the threat of multi-million pound fines from the EU over the UK's poor air quality.The EU published its full decision on Tuesday afternoon. Yesterday morning at MQT, Mayor Johnson described his plans as "remarkable". Alas: The European commission revealed that it had already looked at the draft strategy and decided that "important...  

At the last meeting of the Assembly committee scrutinising what Mayor Johnson yesterday described so aptly as "The Wadliad" it was decided that its chair, Dee Doocey, would write to GLA chief executive Leo Boland to ask what arrangements would be made for the re-run of the selection procedure to choose a chair of London Region of Arts Council England (ACE). She did this on 7 December, asking:One: How many stages in the process will there be...  

By David Hughes No Comments Poor Ken Livingstone?s dreams of ousting Boris in the 2012 London mayoral election suddenly look a little fanciful. It?s not just that Boris?s rather deft handling of the job makes a Tory defeat look unlikely. It?  

This shocking image arrived, unsolicited, in my in-box this morning. After enduring much anguish over the ethical issues involved I concluded that it is my responsibility, dear readers, to share it with you and the wider world. I recognise that it may distress and disillusion many of Boris Johnson's friends, fans and fellow Conservative Party members. I know that the reputation of the London Assembly too may be damaged by the spectacle of its...  

Name the track the mayor and the London assembly chair are bopping to – or just add a caption belowThe Arctic Monkeys probably didn't have Boris Johnson in mind when they penned I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, but the Conservative London mayor didn't let that stop him when he stepped out at the City Hall Christmas party last night.Apparently, tradition has it that the mayor has the first dance with the chair of the London assembly, who...  

The FT this morning reports on "Tory tension" over the Chancellor's proposed windfall tax on bankers' bonuses:Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, criticised the tax as a "regrettable" consequence of the government's failure to agree a global deal on bonuses, which meant London would be "specifically penalised"...But [George] Osborne's response was markedly less condemnatory, saying the "real test" of this new tax would be whether it curbed...  

Transport for London has announced that the UK's first roadworks permit scheme will start in the capital on 11 January. Mayor Johnson said: If companies want to dig up the roads, they must do so in a coordinated manner that causes the minimum disruption to Londoners - and this permitting scheme is a crucial step towards achieving a sensible solution.This talk of steps and co-ordination puts me more in mind of Strictly Come Dancing than men...  

This is a guest post by Peter Tatchell Rev Agu Irukwu is homophobic and divisive London – 9 December 2009 “London Mayor Boris Johnson has made a big mistake by agreeing to attend a carol service hosted by a homophobic clergyman,” said gay human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell, of the gay equality group OutRage! He was commenting on the [...]  

Leader of London assembly's Labour group requests review as row over proposed appointment of Veronica Wadley as chair of London Arts Council continuesBoris Johnson is facing calls for an internal review over how a Freedom of Information request relating to the appointment of a key London arts post was handled after it emerged relevant emails were not included in the information released.Len Duvall, the leader of the Labour group on the London...  

London mayor gives evasive answers when asked if he would return to parliament or run for second term in capitalBoris Johnson today fuelled speculation about his Tory leadership ambitions as he refused to rule out a return to parliament, prompting  

Mayor of London and former Evening Standard editor talked about Arts Council post over lunchBoris Johnson discussed with Veronica Wadley whether she could apply for a senior arts job at a lunch held two weeks before it was advertised, according to correspondence released under freedom of information today.It emerged that Johnson and the former London Evening Standard editor talked over lunch about the post of chair of the London region for the...