Boris Johnson. Photograph: Johnny Green/PA
With details of Boris's schedule in Liverpool today shrouded in secrecy (or, just as likely, completely up in the air and undecided), it's left to the blogosphere to fill in the void.
Although the novelist, editor, MP and shadow minister is expected to speak only to local media during his time in the city, the editor of Boriswatch, the unofficial blog following the Henley's MP's life and gaffes, finally commits words to cyberspace.
Johnson has, he declares, "stumbled" in his so far successful marrying of politics and journalism, which are contradictory trades. Although there is more support for Boris among bloggers than the printed press – he claims – from now on he will be "constantly monitored by opponents for further transgressions. That cannot be good for Boris or for the freedom of The Spectator".
Boris himself, of course, put it somewhat better in advance of his trip north ("I'm simlutaneously clinging on and coming out fighting"), but Boriswatch concludes, less elegantly, "can Boris continue to ride two horses with one arse?"
Boris's own site wisely just contains his piece for the Liverpool Daily Post, and Britain's blogging MPs - all three of them, Tom Watson, Clive Soley and Richard Allan have kept well clear of the controversy.
Meanwhile the good people of Scouseland have got better things to worry about today - at 5pm their council will decide whether or not to become the first city in the UK to ban smoking in public places.
And I'm betting there are more smokers than Spectator readers in Liverpool.
