Goodness knows what continuing misery Australian air travelers would have gone through were it not for the safety net of having industrial disputes settled by arbitration when all else fails.
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Johnson: how to reform vigilante youth
About half the people arrested in the London riots had previously been convicted of multiple offenses. London needs a much better balance between prison enforcement and rehabilitative education, writes Boris Johnson.
Getting beaten up in cyber space? Pfft, stop whinging
Internet debate can be coarse, but it really does hold journalists and politicians to account. The only things I have censored on this blog involved gratuitous obscenity and scatology, says Richard Farmer.
Boris Johnson: Nick Clegg is just a fad
A vote for Liberal Democratic Nick Clegg is a vote for Gordon Brown, says London mayor Boris Johnson. And once Britons realise it, the wave of “Cleggophilia” sweeping the nation will soon pass.
Boris Johnson: Let’s profit from other people’s misery!
London has been labelled “divorce capital of the world”, but look at the bright side, says mayor Boris Johnson: zillionaires suing each other over divorce settlements is a boon to the local economy.
Boris Johnson: We’re too spineless to walk on Mars
Britain needs to harden the f- up, or we’ll never see man walk on Mars, rambles London Mayor Boris Johnston in an op-ed for the Telegraph. More astronauts in schools!
CCTV: London mayor Boris’s near-death cycling experience
London Mayor Boris Johnson wants to get more people on their bikes. But it almost proved a policy to die for.
London, the city that votes on red buses
The problem for Boris Johnson is that the GFC has put the kybosh on many of the plans — mainly public transport — that would have put his stamp on the place.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s Friday drive-bys: Cut and Paste monkeys, Spectator watermelons, Boris…
Guy Rundle’s new sort-of column containing all the bits too long-winded and obscure for media briefs.
Boris Johnson cuts green team in half
Leaked documents seen by the Guardian show that the Greater London authority plans to reduce the total number of 40 staff working on environmental issues in the capital to 20.
Boris Johnson’s very bad week
To understand why the Ray Lewis affair may yet destabilise the Conservatives nationally, one needs to recall how David Cameron won the party leadership in 2005, writes Ben Ellis.
The fop is in: Boris Johnson wins London mayoral race
London’s mayoral race was a chance for locals to air their grievances about national politcs. And Tory pin-up Boris Johnson won, writes Jane Nethercote.
