We knew there would be something good to come out of Boris Johnson's elevation to the office of Mayor of London.

Soon-to-quit Henley MP Boris, right, who attended Balliol College, Oxford, was once a prominent member of the Bullingdon Club - the university's notorious dining society, which also counted David Cameron as a member.

Legend has it that the club - a secret society - wreaks havoc wherever it goes.

However, subscriptions are on the rise, so says a mole holed up somewhere in the Dreaming Spires - and it's all to do with Boris's recent victory over Ken, apparently.

You may recall a few weeks ago an informer, as he or she described themselves, sent me a cartoon apparently left in the members' room at County Hall.

In short, it took the rise out of the Liberal Democrats.

Now the individual concerned (most probably a Tory) is back in touch with another.

This one depicts a man with a telescope spotting a UFO flying over Oxford, heading south.

The caption reads: "No need to panic. It's only the Liberal Democrats' chances of winning the (soon-to-be-called) Henley by-election."

To leave one cartoon in the members' lounge may be regarded as a misfortune. To leave two looks like carelessness.

It's been all change at Oxford City Council in the month since Labour took control.

Out with the old, in with the new and all that.

We always had a suspicion that local politicians were a little jumped-up - now we are glad to see Labour agrees.

Amid sweeping changes, out goes the name of the Town Hall's decision-making committee.

From now on, it's not to be referred to as an executive board, it's just a board.

And portfolio holders are now just plain old board members.

It's just a shame no-one has taken notice at County Hall where their rubber-stamping committee is laughably called a cabinet - presumably because it's full of old, dusty and wooden objects.

If you are feeling low, in need of a pick-me-up or require someone to inject a little self-confidence, then contact Labour's Antonia Bance, right.

But surely even her optimism in the post she left on her online blog is a little like, well, clutching at straws?

After a right royal thumping in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election recently, the city councillor said: "It only remains for me to add the following to Labour comrades: get your bloody heads up, we run this country and the next election is ours to lose."

It only remains for me to say there's optimism and there's blind faith, Antonia.