Fifteen years after I started writing about Johnson, one might almost think his time has come

Johnson’s first biographer confesses to feelings of bemusement, even incredulity, at the recent turn of events.

Andrew Gimson’s leadership sketch: Johnson has a successful launch, but the feral beasts are not happy

He is doing well because managerialism and bureaucratic language are not enough.

Kevin Davis: Each London borough should have its own directly elected mayor

This change would mean streamlined decision making. It would also allow greater devolution in areas such as policing and NHS primary care.

McDonnell’s new spinner wants voters to learn all about the time Livingstone sacked him for messing up London’s finances

He might need to read up on his new boss’s record a little more closely.

WATCH: Maybe Livingstone should just, like, y’know, stop saying Hitler?

As he does it again, we run Mark Wallace’s tribute to the former London Mayor’s greatest hit(ler)s.

WATCH: Khan – “On the evidence I’ve seen,” Livingstone should be expelled from Labour

“There can be no place in our party for anyone with racist views…I don’t see why it takes so long.”

Berger on anti-semitism: “People have accused me of having two masters…that I am Tel Aviv’s servant…a paid-up Israeli operative.”

We reproduce the Labour MP’s full speech from yesterday’s Commons debate on the issue, in which she called on her party to expel Livingstone.

Sketch: Corbyn spurns Labour’s Jewish members, who demonstrate their sense of utter betrayal

The failure to confront anti-semitism within the Labour Party has led to a total breakdown of trust.

The decision not to challenge the release of Worboys further erodes Tory credentials on law and order

Gauke should have fought and lost rather than not have fought at all. But the wider concern is that the “system” is on the side of the criminal rather than the victim.

Greg Hands: How Momentum is planning a loony left takeover in London

You can help to warn voters before it’s too late.

Garvan Walshe: How Venezuela became the left’s favourite dictatorship

Corbyn surely knows that Chavista populism isn’t the only alternative to a traditionalist, oligarchic right.

Why is anti-semitism more easily tolerated than other forms of racism in politics?

Morris was rightly and swiftly punished. Others doing the same thing but to different victims should surely be treated the same.

Alex Crowley: The Conservative Party in London must learn from Davidson’s success in Scotland

We face the prospect of extinction in our nation’s capital if we do not take steps to arrest a decline that has been underway for some years.

WATCH: McDonnell: Livingstone needs to apologise

The Shadow Chancellor tells Sophy Ridge that the NEC will consider the matter again.

Iain Dale: Guess who mentioned Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler…and, yes, Hitler?

Yes, Livingstone named him 12 times when interviewed by me this week. Plus: Saudi Arabia uncovered, Michael Howard unmuzzled. And: In memory of Helen Szamuely.