Boris says awesome things...

News abounds in both The Independent and The Observer this morning that Boris will announce he’s leaving The Spectator on Desert Island Discs today! Those who crave a one-career, more focused Boris may be about to have their wish come true…

Looks to be a certainty that Boris will appear on Desert Island Discs this Sunday!

Boris Johnson formally announces Tory leadership candidacy?: We can all dream, can’t we?

Boriswatch, as you might imagine, is taking a keen interest in the Conservative leadership. Today’s drug -related stories seem suspiciously well-engineered, with Ken Clarke getting brownie points for supporting Cameron through his stony silence (and David Davis losing points and possibly Tory friends by failing to support him until today). However, if Boriswatch has learned anything over the past couple of years tracking the Big Bozza, its that you can never be too cynical. Which is why suspicions for the story-peddling go outside the Tory leadership contenders and beyond the ob - and centre on the Labour Party. They would see Cameron as a better-than-Blair Tory votewinner. They’ve shown that they have a healthy command of the media and these drug stories would be as easy as pie to generate - thereby trying to ensure that one of the other two less-effective contenders becomes leader.
If only from a selfish, Boris-promoting viewpoint, David Cameron seems the best man for the job. Today’s Mail On Sunday newspaper highlights the knee-trembling prospect of a Boris comeback with the aid of a easy-to-read diagram (making Boriswatch’s hungover mind ever so grateful). It seems that David Cameron (together with chosen playmate George Osbourne) were members of the champagne-quaffing Bullington club at Oxford University. Together, dear Boriswatchers, with a certain Mr B. Johnson. The Spectator has become more-or-less a Cameron promotion machine in the past few weeks, and should David Cameron rise to the top in next weeks ballot, the newspaper notes that Boris “is poised for a political comeback”, and will become the “core of the new political establishment”.
THAT’S THE SPIRIT! If Boris can’t be leader this time round, I can think of no better outcome than that. GO CAMERON!

Rumours are starting to pick up speed that Tatler editor George Greig is being groomed to replace Boris as editor of The Spectator. The latest article to report it is here in the Independent. Is this idle chatter, or the beginning of the new one-career Boris?

It comes to something when columnnists write articles about Boris writing articles. But the trend has become more pronounced in the past few weeks. The Guardian calls him “the best bumbling wit who hasn’t stood for leader yet.” in an article that is built on Boris’s latest anti-Bush article. But in the absense of Boris, the Boris-endorsed David Cameron is making a fine replacement, taking the lead over an increasingly lacklustre David Davis. The very public backing of Cameron by Boris will be a shrewd move if Cameron maintains the plaudits and becomes leader. After Cameron’s well-received speech, Boris was reported to be jubilant:

“I thought he played a blinder and I thought he raised a particularly effective peroration, a juddering climax, which brought them all to their knees - that is, their feet - ha, their knees being weak at the time. Very good stuff.”

But, as he noted last week, many are asking why Boris isn’t standing. And Boriswatch is also at a quandary. Boris is by far the most popular Tory, has forthright views which he regularly expresses (and which have done him no harm, if we ignore the Liverpudlian debacle) and often finds that, after much thought, most people agree with him. So why is he not in the frame? The New Statesman has a theory. “[Boris has] a bald patch… visible on the crown of his white mop; the jester-in-chief won’t sound quite so funny if he looks like Iain Duncan Smith.” A harsh warning, but one that needs heeding - Boris should run for leader before its too late!