Tag Archives: Boris Johnson

The UK is battening down the hatches again on Covid-19 after ONS figures reveal the number of cases in the UK is rising again. PM Boris Johnson has delayed a further series of lockdown relaxations (theatres etc) alongside new localised ...

Looks like Hancock’s Half Hour, the once-daily media briefings on Covid-19, usually hosted by health secretary Matt Hancock, are about to make a comeback – although not about the virus we hope. The Government is reportedly planning to introduce “White ...

Mother’s Day is said to have been invented by Hallmark Cards in 1920 but this manufactured event has taken on a more significant meaning, in the UK at least, with the Covid-19 virus wreaking its havoc. PM Boris Johnson, who ...

I caught up belatedly with Boris Johnson revealing the outcome of his (somewhat delayed) Cobra emergency cabinet committee meeting, when he seemed to be making some fairly sensible “steady as you go” comments about the COVID-19 outbreak (better give it ...

All publicity is good publicity? Not in the social media age it isn’t. Boris Johnson’s new chancellor Rishi Sunak, an unfeasibly rich Yorkshire dweller (he married into the Infosys family and is a former hedge fund partner) probably thought he’d ...

So are prime minister Boris Johnson and his chief adviser Dominic Cummings (Dom as his friends call him, assuming he has any) a danger to democracy? Well they might be if you think media access to our elected leaders is ...

Boris Johnson remains as UK prime minister – with a stonking majority which even he probably didn’t expect, at least he says he didn’t but you never know with Boris – following a campaign quite unlike any we’ve seen. In ...

The UK’s National Audit Office doesn’t think much of the Government’s ‘Get Ready for Brexit’ campaign – costing a supposed £100m – reporting that: “On 1 September 2019, the government launched a major communications campaign to help individuals and businesses ...

Is it the curse of Boris Johnson? Long-time Johnson supporter The Telegraph (BoJo has written a highly paid column for the paper for years – famously he wrote two, one pro-Remain and one pro-Brexit and finally chose Brexit) has revealed ...