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On 8th September Londonist reported that the BNP had chosen Carlos Cortiglia as its candidate for the mayoral election. In our report we quoted a 2003 interview with La Nacion, Argentina’s leading conservative newspaper, in which he claimed to have volunteered to fight against Britain during …

London’s constituencies mapped according to education levels.

The Ian Tomlinson case once again raises questions about how the Met face up to mistakes.

A rant about the new rail map.

This morning brought the news that Boris Johnson is lobbying the government for stronger powers to deal with London’s unusually large contingent of drunks. The plan, borrowed from South Dakota, would see anyone convicted of an alcohol-related offence tested for blood alcohol twice a day, …

Image courtesy of prkn under a creative commons licence One-little commented side-effect of London’s cycle hire scheme has been the insight it’s given us into what TfL thinks different bits of London are actually called. Going by the names on the cycle docking stations, the …

“Have you seen it? It’s an absolute eyesore,” the cockney Asian guy lounging on a sofa in a sunny Shoreditch street is saying. His jeans, as one of his mates delights in telling him, are ripped at the crotch (“Yeah, but I’m wearing cycle shorts …

Picture courtesy of Annie Mole under a creative commons licence Alan doesn’t want us, Jon doesn’t care, David has better things to do. The deadline for nominations is 5 o’clock and, unless someone is holding their cards phenomenally close to their chest, just two candidates …

Last week, you may recall, Londonist rather hubristically predicted London’s election results. At the time we said we expected not to get everything right. This, it turned out, was our most accurate prediction of the day. Here’s what we predicted: …and here’s what actually happened: