Boris says awesome things...

Boris has sneaked another book under the fence. The New British Revolution explores what it is to be British, a question that is currently being debated on the official website. Actually, I say it’s a current topic - Amazon slates the release date as 2007 - although I’m thinking that’s a smidgeon of a mistake.

To celebrate Boris’s top 12 position in Heat magazine’s “Weird people Heat readers fancy” (Boriswatch is still trying to work out if that’s a compliment or not), several small web ferrets have had their heads buried in code for the last couple of days, and over at Boris’s official site you can see the result of their labours…

Boriswatch has grown and matured like a ripe brie. So much so, in fact, that it now has its own domain, www.boriswatch.com. The old site will disappear in a few days, so make sure your bookmarks are updated…

Well, it’s been a couple of days since the New Statesman Media Awards. Boris was up for the Elected Representative gong and we waited expectantly in the bowels of Fabric nightclub in Farringdon, the rumbling of the tube below the only thing disturbing our concentration. Rosie Millard, BBC Reporter, was announcing the awards and all was going well. Until, of course, Rosie announced that the category produced “a postcode lottery” and that there would be no winner.
I was fuming, tempered only by the slightly sozzled beer-induced state. A postcode lottery? Elected Representatives, by their very nature, are defined by postcodes! Take a look at the others up for the award. Was there anyone to touch Boris’s website for communication, popularity and initial launch innovation?
However, I consoled myself by the fact that the left-leaning New Statesman would never give an award to the Editor of The Spectator, a right-wing literary think-tank. Put simply, the fact that Boris didn’t win only emphasises the feeling that he was a racing certainty to win, and the spiel here in the award results page does nothing to discredit that view. I consoled myself in several more beers, as Boris’s right-hand woman Melissa issued consoling words at regular intervals. A hangover was definitely on the cards…
Brighter news on the website front though - his official site’s revamp is imminent, and I’m told it’s guaranteed to contain less purple! Happy days…

Boris news has been few and far between this month. His endorsement of David Cameron has been the only newsworthy piece for the last few weeks, but tomorrow night the New Stateman Media Awards are rolling into London town - and Boris’s website is on the shortlist! Last year Tom Watson won the Elected Representative award, and hope are high for Boris’s efforts this year - after all, the website comes from the same geeky stable as Tom’s. I’ll hopefully be there to see the outcome - and Boriswatch will be duly informed of the outcome…