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Londonist got in touch with some of the candidates for tomorrow’s election and asked a few Londony questions… Where do you call home? I was born and grew up in Islington and now live in Harrow, so London is very definitely my home. What do …

Londonist got in touch with some of the candidates for tomorrow’s election and asked a few Londony questions… Where do you call home? I was born in Lewisham and grew up in Kingston Upon Thames where I still live, but have spent my whole career …

European elections. Thur 4 June. London, as we all clearly agree, is one of the top cities in the European Union. Due to some snobby border drawing by our friends on the other end of the Eurostar it’s also the most populous city in the …

People can get in lots of trouble for saying that good things can come out of recession, but no doubt about it, the legacy of the last was not all bad. Here we start 2009 with the first of our uplifting investigations into the silver …

Dave Hill has broken the story that the Western Congestion Charge will be abolished in 2010, once all the legal requirements have been suitably dealt with. The Mayor has since issued a press release stating that they received 28,000 responses and 67 per cent of …

Hot on the heels of the cut to step free access at South Ken Station eagle eyed Marc M on Skyscrapercity noticed something the journalists seem to have missed. While London may be a step closer to cycle hire and door-less buses, disabled Islington residents …

Blogging, much like joining a convent, is a noble tradition of sacrifice. We write for your education, fulfillment and the small furtherance of the misguided belief that our opinions matter. We were excited, therefore, to discover a new breed of bloggers: they are called journalists. …

The terrible stomach churning uncertainty that has embraced our fair city is only slightly tempered by the satisfaction that we called it right – the Office of National Statistics has spoken and the initial estimates for the third quarter of 2008 are that we dived …

A while back people used to worry about ‘talking ourselves into recession’ and, while we can hardly take a moral stance on this issue, there is likely some value to the concern. As we explained to the family over dinner the other day: If the …

After the usual screams of anguish from the Evening Standard editorials have died away there are some more ominous signs in last week’s traditional September bundle of joy: the TfL new year fare package. “Tough choices around some unfunded transport projects” are to be made, …