There’s no doubt those two things are incompatible he said

There’s no doubt those two things are incompatible,” he said.While Mr Johnson is not the first editor of The Spectator to double up as a Tory MP – Nigel Lawson, Ian Gilmour and Iain Macleod also performed the dual role – they were not on the front benches at the time, said Mr Neil. Mr Johnson, who has rarely been out of the headlines in recent weeks – first because of a controversial editorial about Liverpool and then over an alleged affair – agreed with his new boss that he should henceforth avoid the media limelight. “I will do what chief executives do, which is bring together the editorial and commercial sides of the company, push forward the strategic development of the magazine to the greater glory of all concerned,” he said.Mr Johnson spent most of his journalistic career before joining the political magazine on the Daily Telegraph, where he rose to become Europe correspondent, assistant editor and a columnist. “I think his appearances on television have made him a popular national figure… But there is good publicity and bad publicity and there are some things which we have seen in the papers recently which haven’t done the magazine any great favours and I am sure we will now see less of that,” said Mr Neil.The new chief executive, who has also given his backing to The Spectator’s publisher Kimberley Quinn, insisted the decision to transfer the magazine to Press Holdings was made in August, long before the media furore surrounding Mr Johnson broke out.

His new agreement could leave him with a difficult choice between editing the magazine and making a comeback in Tory politics.The Barclay brothers, who bought The Spectator as part of the Telegraph Group earlier this year, have transferred management of the title to Press Holdings, the company overseen by Mr Neil. But he told Radio 4’s Today programme that the right of centre political weekly could now “look forward to a period of quiet”. “I think the more time the editor spends in Doughty Street editing the magazine and the less we see of him in the newspapers then the better for the editor and the better for the magazine,” he said.Mr Johnson, who greeted Mr Neil’s appointment as “good news” for The Spectator, agreed with his new boss that combining the work of a frontbench spokesman with editing the magazine had not been a success “I think one thing is for certain. While he expressed “full confidence” in Mr Johnson, the sacked Tory spokesman for arts, he said: “I don’t think they are compatible in the long term, because the position The Spectator must take on any issue must be the editor’s position and not the one of the front bench to which he belongs.”The new chief executive yesterday pledged not to interfere in the editorial content of the magazine. Andrew Neil, the new boss of The Spectator, has urged Boris Johnson to stay out of the media limelight and said his frontbench position was incompatible with editing a weekly political magazine.
Mr Neil, the former editor of The Sunday Times and publisher of The Scotsman and The Business, was yesterday named as chief executive of The Spectator. Rockets can also achieve high speeds, but the weight of oxygen tanks or other oxidisers reduces the amount of payload they can carry.Yesterday’s launch was expected to be the last research flight for Nasa’s B-52, which is being retired after some 40 years of service.. Rockets do not “breathe” air, but instead carry oxidizers that are combined with fuel to allow combustion.Not having to carry oxygen is one of the advantages scramjets hold over rockets.

Instead it uses the underside of the aircraft’s forebody to “scoop” up and compress air for mixing with hydrogen fuel.The X-43A launched late last night was the last of three built for Nasa’s Hyper-X programme.The first X-43A flight failed in 2001 when the booster rocket veered off course and was destroyed.The second X-43A successfully flew in March, reaching Mach 6.83 – nearly 5,000mph – and setting a world speed record for a plane powered by an air-breathing engine.That was more than double the top speed of the jet-powered SR-71 Blackbird spyplane, which at slightly more than Mach 3 is the fastest air-breathing, manned aircraft.The old X-15 was the fastest rocket-powered manned plane, hitting Mach 6.7. “I definitely feel I am ready to play international cricket,” he added “But I will not just settle for selection here. My aim is to play at this level for a long time and to be the best possible player I can be. I have always said that I want to be one of the best batsmen going.

I won’t say I want to be the best because you get freaks like Tendulkar. But I want to be up there.”I want to be like Michael Vaughan – one of those blokes who a bowler like Brett Lee worries about bowling at.”He may well get the opportunity during next summer’s Ashes series.. A tiny unmanned Nasa “scramjet” soared above the Pacific Ocean at nearly 10 times the speed of sound – almost 7,000mph – in a record-breaking demonstration of a radical new engine technology. Analysis of data to determine the exact performance will take several months, but mission officials were jubilant.”Once again we made aviation history. We did that in March when we went seven times the speed of sound and now we’ve done it right around 10 times the speed of sound,” said Vince Rausch, Hyper-X programme manager from Nasa’s Langley Research Centre in Virginia.The X-43A, mounted on a Pegasus rocket used to boost it to flight speed, was carried under the wing of a B-52 aircraft and released at an altitude of 40,000 feet over a test range off the Southern California coast. The rocket motor then fired for a 90-second ascent.”It’s 90 seconds of terror, but once it’s over with you realise that you’ve really accomplished some great things,” said Joel Sitz, the X-43A project manager at Dryden.Like its predecessors, the X-43A will not be recovered from the ocean.The flight was the last in a £140 million-plus effort to test technology most likely to be initially used in military aircraft, such as a bomber that could reach any target on Earth within two hours of takeoff from the United States, or to power missiles.Scramjets may also provide an alternative to rockets for space launches.Unlike conventional jet engines which use rotating fan blades to compress air for combustion, the X-43A has no rotating engine parts. He was cleared to play in September and was immediately selected for England’s tour of Zimbabwe.After scoring 24 hundreds and more than 8,000 runs in four years of cricket Pietersen has every reason to feel confident about how he will fare on the biggest stage.