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Boris Johnson is the Conservative MP for Henley, a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and a former editor of The Spectator.

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Diary

16th September 2009 Boris Johnson

Everywhere I go in Manhattan I meet British tourists. ‘Oi, Boris,’ they shout across the street, ‘who let you out, then?’ How come it is the Brits, with their puny…

Beijing Notebook

27th August 2008 Boris Johnson

We only had a few seconds left to get ready. There were 91,000 people in the stadium and (allegedly) about 1.5 billion watching apathetically at home. I advanced to the…

Hold Brown to account

13th February 2008 Boris Johnson

You may have seen the disgraceful suggestion by Gordon Brown in Prime Minister’s Question Time that I want to cut the Metropolitan Police budget…

How, as Mayor, I would help our brave troops

13th December 2007 Boris Johnson

Even if the story is exaggerated, the underlying psychology is convincing. It is reliably reported that last month a woman in her thirties was doing her daily laps of the…

James Michie, gentle genius

7th November 2007 Boris Johnson

It is a measure of James Michie’s extreme modesty that most of the younger people who bumped into him in the offices of The Spectator probably hadn’t the foggiest idea…

The will to win

26th July 2007 Boris Johnson

"The present Mayor of London": that is how Our Candidate refers, with terse menace, to Ken Livingstone, in today's Telegraph. If I were Ken, those five words would give…

Moore endorsements for Boris

18th July 2007 Boris Johnson

One of Britain’s best columnists, The Sun’s Jane Moore, backs our candidate today. “Electing him as Mayor would be outrageous,” Jane writes. “He should be PM and nothing less.” Her…

The pursuit of happiness

23rd May 2007 Boris Johnson

You’ve got to realise they would have done it. They would have gone right ahead and swept another priceless heirloom from the mantelpiece of history. They were revving up their…

Let the cash flow into our schools

19th February 2007 Boris Johnson

Money is gushing into London, and with it thousands of brilliant and rich people. So why not change the law to let our philanthropic millionaires invest in state education?

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Generation Bridget Jones is growing - here's why

5th February 2007 Boris Johnson

It is a stunning fact - the biggest social revolution of our lifetime - that far more women than men are now going to university. But with fewer male graduates…