Boris Johnson's performance as compere at the Accountancy Age Awards was one of the evening's highlights, thinks TS.

From telling the audience that Accountancy Age had delayed the election through its coverage during the non-dom figures row, to handing out awards in a very speedy manner, Boris had the audience, and an increasingly sozzled TS, enthralled.

Of course, he kept away from discussing politics and in particular the mayoral battle.

Apart from describing the current mayoral incumbent as a 'gigantic newt', suggesting that spending London taxpayers' money on the European Space programme could only be justified if it was used to 'propel the mayoral incumbent into orbit'.

So, basically, he kept well away from politics. Oh, and likening the Mayor's London free-paper The Londoner to 'a sort of North Korean freesheet'. Yep, apart from those things TS didn't think he made a political speech at all.