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* havalimani :  airport

Istanbul’s gleaming and expanding airport is a symbol of a nation going places …

… Heathrow is not,argues Boris Johnson.—

The other night we were filling in time at Istanbul airport, and I was watching an official dart around on one of those new Segway gizmos.  Have you seen one?  They are extraordinary.  It was as though [...]

“I would give anything – anything at all – to see Boris participate in the Big World Dance and would be eternally grateful to whoever would film him doing it”
My friends, my friends – Gotham Girl is back and how I have missed you! Everyone’s winter went well? Wasn’t too snowy or bone-chillingly cold?   I [...]

 · The Julio-Claudian Dynasty · 

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Listen to Boris talk about the Roman emperor Augustus
this Friday, 21st. May, on Radio 4 at 9.45 a.m.,
repeated at 7.45 p.m. and on Saturday at 12.30 a.m.
 

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Although Rome’s empire grew throughout the late republic — from the middle of the third century to the death of Julius Caesar in 44 b.c. — the first emperor, [...]

Leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron is the Prime Minister
 
Ministers announced here
First Cabinet appointments in the Cameron-Clegg Cabinet here 
See photos of Dave’s first days in Downing Street via flickr
Keep up to date with all the Cabinet and Ministerial appointments on the Number 10 website including the Cabinet appointments list
Boris Johnson is delighted at the news and felt [...]

How should you vote? Vote Match is a very straightforward brief quiz in The Daily Telegraph and helps you decide who to vote by matching your views on the issues most important to you with each party’s policies.  Have a go and click here
You can also predict the result of the Election with a free £5 and [...]

London illustrates what a bold, Conservative administration can do
I’m a one-nation Tory
He believes in the capacity of human ingenuity
Dave, he says,  will be seen in a completely different light
Benedict Brogan interview with Boris
Boris Johnson was at work on Wednesday when Gordon Brown crashed into the northern rock that is Gillian Duffy. As a connoisseur [...]

When Iceland’s mount sends up a pall
  And turbine engines start to fail
And by and by the ash doth fall
  And stranded Britons home do sail,

Then nightly do the airlines howl :
  “Boo-hoo !  …  Oh shit !  Boo-hoo !”

A ferry’s not …
  As quick but, hell, it’s all we’ve got.

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[The Chorus of Labour M.P.s]
With cat-like tread
    The revenue we steal ;
Influence ped-
    d-ling is our new deal.
Of the truth
    We never speak a word ;
And Sterling’s fall
    can be distinctly heard.

[The Chorus of Lobbyists]
Taxi ! Tara !
Taxi ! Tara !

[Labour M.P.s]
So stealthily the tax-men creep
    While all across the country sleep.

Come, friends
    who used to be
Leaders of the [...]