Tag Archives: Boris Johnson

If you want to find the cutest animal on the planet, you could do worse that the slow loris. It’s a little nocturnal primate that can melt your heart strings with bigger eyes than Puss in Boots from Shrek. YouTube ...

Who on earth is co-ordinating, if that’s not too grand a word, the Tories’ General Election campaign. Not M&C Saatchi surely, who should know about these things. Aussie spinmeister and legendary control freak Lynton Crosby? Then where is he? Here’s ...

*Tennis player Maria Sharapova (below) is facing a four-year ban for taking some tablets she claims she’s been taking legally for ten years. It’s hard to believe that these potions have actually helped her become a more successful tennis player; ...

“Boris moves in for the kill” bellowed the Daily Mail’s front page earlier this week, as the bumbling mayor of London, shirt hanging out no doubt, announced, after days of procrastinating, that he was to back the ‘Brexit’ camp in ...

Mondelez is pretty active at the moment and the former Kraft snacks business is launching Cadbury Wispa Hot Chocolate (Wispa’s a Cadbury chocolate brand) with this new TV campaign, ‘Frothy Beast’ (as opposed to sexy beast), from Fallon. Which rather ...

Andrew Gimson in the London Evening Standard has written a piece I’ve been mulling over but not quite had the confidence to write about; he has suggested Boris Johnson is limbering up to become the future leader of the UK. ...

On Saturday I witnessed one of those magnificent moments that seem so typically British. I found a spot on the route for the Olympic men’s road race close to the finish at the bottom of Hyde Park. As the tail ...

Spotted in The Independent: First came Coca-Cola’s free sample bearers. Then the trotting Samsung flag distributors and the Lloyds TSB streamer wavers. And finally, with a broad smile as he bore the fiery symbol of sporting purity, came the millionaire ...

I’ve just been to vote for the next Mayor of London and, walking down the street, I was thinking about the ‘headline’ views most people will have about the candidates. That turned in to wondering to what extent people in ...