Thoughts from Boris

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Sorry not to have been in touch for so long!

Here’s my THOUGHT FOR TODAY

We are told the Tony Blair wants to suck up to working mothers by increasing paid maternity leave by a stonking 50 per cent — to nine months.

The Spectator Documentary

BBC News claims that the programme tonight reveals that:

The Spectator’s legendary capacity for mischief-making remains undimmed.

The final irony, after an extraordinary six months, is the magazine’s circulation has never been higher…

Prevention of Terrorism Bill

24 February 2005

Press Release

Boris Johnson MP denounces Government’s latest Anti-Terror plans

Speaking in the Chamber, Boris Johnson MP yesterday lambasted the Government’s proposed Prevention of Terrorism Bill as an attack on the fundamental principles of Habeas Corpus:

Monarchy and Habeas Corpus – DT comment

Sorry, Blair, but that is so much phooey

I have a terrible feeling that, if you lift your eyes a few inches to the north, you will have a shock. An intruder has crept into the chaste domain of the comment pages.

I can almost feel his Cheshire cat grin over my shoulder. I can already hear the torrent of drivel seeping down from my columnar next-door neighbour, and I am afraid I want to throw up my figurative window and say, “Oi, Blair, shut it, mate. Some of us down here are trying to talk.”

Slovene Snowman and Melissa

Before General Election fever really hits us all in earnest, it was the last chance for a Boris Johnson Office rep to escape the rigours of parliamentary office life.