Boris gave a speech for lobby journalists on Thursday, and by most accounts the journalistic bunch were impressed. Michael White, assistant editor of the Guardian, liked Boris’s beef in this article, noting the lack of jokes and mentioning applause that broke out for some of his policies. Of course, one man’s bread is another (wo)man’s dough, but there are signs that, if Boris turns off the jokey exterior occasionally, people are surprised by the coherence underneath.