Having hinted earlier in the year that he'd favour a Barack Obama presidency, Boris Johnson has fleshed his out his "endorsement". Writing in his Telegraph column, Boris opined that the Bush presidency had "damaged the reputation" of America's twin columns of capitalism and democracy, and argued convincingly that, while John McCain is a worthy candidate, only Mr. Obama has the vision and the ability to "rejuvenate" the country's global standing. How will such perfidy go......

Honestly, what kind of topsy-turvy world is it where a man can't keep for himself the spoils of war he half-inched on a foreign lark? That's just what Boris Johnson is wondering. The mayor has been forced to hand over a cigar box that he pilfered from the charred remains of Baghdad to Scotland Yard. Boris was in Iraq in 2003, shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein's government, when he visited the home......

Wethinks the Livingstone doth protest too much. Our former mayor is upset at the suggestion, made by Boris Johnson, that Ken kept a secret stash of liquor with which to get merry with the wives of Windsor and who knows whom else. A comedy of errors it may be (that's enough poor Shakespeare references. Eds.), but Boris claims that, when he first moved into the Thameside offices, he discovered a secret fridge stocked with......

Mere days after warning us about 'white flight' and the perils of living in modern London, scribes at the Telegraph have had a volte-face, and declared their love for our flawed yet fantastic city with a special report on the top 10 property hotspots for 2008. First up on the list: well, colour us a shade of surprised blue - the Telegraph's only singled out the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, home to Notting......

It's by-election day in Ealing Southall. The West London constituency is bereft of a representative following the death of Piara Kabra. The Labour politician was the UK's oldest at 82. Twelve hopefuls are vying for victory. Virenda Kumar Sharma is the Labour candidate, while Nigel Bakhai stands for the Lib Dems. Tony Lit, meanwhile, represents 'David Cameron's Conservatives'. What? Is that to distinguish them from Gordon Brown's Conservatives? Or is it some kind of......

We like the Fortnight Club. It takes place in the Camden Head in Angel at 8.45pm on every other Monday and is usually a bill of ten or so professional circuit comedians test driving brand new material that they wouldn't necessarily want to throw straight into their set. Proceedings are greased by Logan Murray's hilarious Ronnie Rigsby character, a pervy "50 years in showbiz" style entertainer, as MC. It's a mere £4 to get......

This looks like a fun (and illegal) read: Glorifying Terrorism is a science fiction anthology. With an introduction by Andrew McKie of the Daily Telegraph, it features contributions by top UK SF writers Ian Watson, Gwyneth Jones, Ken MacLeod, and Charles Stross. The anthology highlights the flaws in recent UK government legislation that criminalizes ‘encouragement of terrorism’. The 2006 Terrorism Act makes it a criminal offence to incite or encourage others to commit acts......

And so West Ham finally decided to step off the Train to the Clouds and join the Polar Express instead. On Tuesday morning the club released a statement to the Stock Exchange "confirming acceptance from the major shareholders of an £85million offer" from an Icelandic consortium led by tabloid photographer's delight Eggert Magnusson and backed largely by funds emanating from his countryman Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson. Eggert is certainly saying all the right things: I am......

... is pretty fugly. Judging by how it chooses to be presented on the small screen, at any rate. Take Gordon Ramsay's F Word (Wed 9pm C4): We're not denying that it's entertaining. It is hugely entertaining, especially when Gordon picks on twattish City trader boys from Essex and reduces them to tears, much as he reduces all sorts of delicious juices to make a lovely concentrated sauce. Mmm, we're hungry just thinking about......

Only one goal ahead and four minutes to go it looked as if it might be extra time, but Fisher Athletic hung on to beat brave Hendon 3-2 in the final of the London FA Senior Cup on Tuesday night. Fisher had been 3-0 up after an hour, but Hendon struck back soon after and a late goal made the dying minutes nervous for the leaders before they could finally add this trophy to......

Yes, the fabulous Ms Kidman, fresh from twitching her nose in the rather lacklustre Bewitched, has decided that a spell (ahem) in London's theatre-land is just what she needs to cleanse her palate. She'll be appearing as the eponymous tragic heroine/manipulative bitch in Hedda Gabler, by famed Norwegian miserabilist Henrik Ibsen. Nicole's last appearance on the London stage was, of course, all the way back in 1998, in the Donmar's production of David Hare's......

A US Senate report claims that George Galloway and former French minister Charles Pasqua were granted potentially lucrative oil allocations by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Galloway has already won one libel suit against the Telegraph over similar claims, although the US is quick to point out that the new allegations "have no relation" to those discussed in the earlier suit. Galloway never one to shy from taking the offensive claims that "These are the same......

The chairman of trustees for the Science Museum, Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, has written to the Daily Telegraph to warn that the museum may have to sell off its Imperial College library to stay out financial trouble. After already closing four galleries and cutting back on staff (which has led to at least one significant theft), the museum is asking for an additional £3 million on top of its current grant in order......

Slandered and now vindicated, MP George Galloway, is coming to London to stick it to the pro-war New-Labourites. Mustachioed Galloway is set to contest the seat of Bethnal Green, the home of Pro-War Labour MP Oona King, in Londons East end. Thrown out of the Labour party under a cloud of treasonous allegations, George formed the Respect Party in January and now that his libel case against the Daily Telegraph has finished (George -......

No newspaper is happier than when it is at the forefront of a campaign. When that campaign entails what looks like bureaucratic idiocy, you can be sure that one of the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail or the Daily Express will be the loudest in exposing another example of “red tape gone mad”. This week it’s the Daily Telegraph’s turn to campaign for another persecuted species — the window-box in east London. Norwich Union has......