Times hearts Boris

We suspected the Times had fallen for BoJo, but we didn't know how far and how hard:

Mr Brown revealed yesterday that he plans a trip to the US as the fight for London reaches a climax next month. David Cameron has chosen to appear alongside Boris Johnson when the Conservative candidate officially begins his campaign next week.

So, the essence of this story is that Gordon Brown is flying to the US next month. The vote is on May 1 - ie, not next month. Seriously, we expected this kind of thing from the Boris Standard, but really, from the paper of record? Is there some distribution problem with thelondonpaper that we didn't know about?