Sanctimonious twats. I hate this kind of journalism: "let's do a story where we show Boris to be corrupt and unfit to be Mayor...how can we do that?" We get Boris, timidly half-pedalling, half-kerb-legging through a red.

In a way this arcticle gives me optimism though - surely Boris has just shown what we know to be a daily truth? That, though it looks bad from a driver's windscreened POV, we aren't doing these things to be arrogant, malicious or belligerent - it just...feels natural to do it sometimes, especially if you're in a rush for work. And now surely Boris can't put fines, coppers etc. in place as it was being rumoured?

I do hope he doesn't apologise (how arrogant of that red light campaign guy - I'm sorry but who are you? Full apology and petition? I know you're making the most of the visibility this incident affords your campaign but you haven't done much to make it massively visible thusfar). And were Boris to retract all his bad highway coding and start coming down hard on the very people he's been typical of, that really would be shitty, hypocritical and nuzzling at the sugar-lump'd palm of his beloved Tory Party. Come on Boris, you wouldn't do that would yer? You're one of us ain't yer - a Real London Cyclist..?

One concern. If he doesn't know the route from St Paul's to London Bridge he can't have done that much cycling in London - I mean that route's a Sunday Starter for five points. Specially if you've got a new job.