Archive for February, 2009

DVDs and the erosion of public morals

The risk of going on holiday with friends is that you inadvertently expose the vagaries of your child-rearing methods to the scrutiny of others. Some parents seem to be breast-feeding lusty six-year-olds. Some of them have strange systems of potty training. And I am now accused by my fellow parents of being eccentrically liberal in [...]


Roman quiz reminder

A quick reminder:
You have less than a week in which to submit responses to the Roman quiz.
Answers go to borisanswers [Email address: borisanswers #AT# hotmail.com - replace #AT# with @ ], not here!  Good luck.


Roman Quiz and Prize

Roman Quiz – Devised by Jaq and Angela 

Prize – a PC Game
Boris-Johnson.com has been offered a chart-topping pc game Rome: Total War as a giveaway courtesy of www.pcgames.co.uk

Rome: Total War
With the glory days of the real-time strategy game now nothing but a distant memory, Activision’s Total War series has come to totally [...]


Bankers’ greed and civil servants sitting pretty

Bonuses? For this lot? You have to be joking. It is mind-blowing. It is outrageous. It is sick. Since I have now been officially designated by the BBC as the last politician willing to say anything in favour of the financial services industry and its practitioners, I hope my friends in the City will not [...]


The Benefits of Free Trade

Now is the time to stick up for free trade and the huge benefits it has brought
Let us suppose you are so brave or mad as to get in your car today, and head off through the snowy wastes. Suppose you find that you are almost alone on the roads, and that actually it isn’t [...]