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No stretch of virgin water is safe when Boris Johnson wants to cross it

No stretch of virgin water is safe when Boris Johnson wants to cross it Rowan Moore © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AFP/Getty Images Beware the combination of Boris Johnson, significant bodies of water, and expensive engineering. He seems to find something so inflaming about a virgin stretch of river or sea that he has to transfix it with steel and concrete. As mayor of London, he backed a barely-used cable car over the Thames, the notorious failure of the garden bridge and “Boris Island”, which was an abandoned plan to relocate London’s main airport to the Thames estuary. Now he’s pushing the “Boris burrow”, a tunnel connecting Scotland to Northern Ireland. This, to paraphrase the

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