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Image courtesy of WallyG under a creative commons licence. Without wanting to make this election any more depressing than it already is, you deserve the truth: odds are, your vote doesn’t count. There are 73 constituencies in London. Something like 60 of them are going …

Who knew Floella Benjamin was still around? There’s something ever so slightly suspicious about the new edition of Islington & Finsbury Life magazine. It’s a glossy, gossipy Take-a-Break-style title of the sort one finds in the waiting rooms of dentists and barbershops, full of real …

It’s not the first time he’s said it, but it may be the clearest. On today’s Daily Politics show, Andrew Neill asked Ken Livingstone whether he’d run for Mayor again in 2012. “God willing,” Ken replied, with a surprisingly coy smile, “Yes.” This will come …

He is, you know Regular Londonistas may recall our coverage of the wit and wisdom of “Sarah, London”, the Mayor’s Number One Fan and official Best Friend FOREVAH! This week, she’s at it again, offering her thoughts on the plight of Soho businesses losing their …

Europe couldn’t hold him for long, it seems. Nick Griffin, the BNP leader who recently told a Question Time audience he only backed the “non-violent wing” of the Klu Klax Klan, has announced his intention to stand as parliamentary candidate for Barking in next year’s …

Christmas has come early for London’s crowd of map-spotters: not before time, Boris has published his Transport Strategy. The tabloids are already all over plans for a road-pricing scheme which would mean it could cost as much as £20 to drive into central London, but …

Boris defends himself Some people are never happy. At the Tory conference this morning, the chair of pro-smoking lobby group Forest took Boris to task for one of his keynote policies. “I’m a big fan of Boris Johnson, who’s always said he’s a libertarian,” Simon …

The police are stopping people who leave and return to a certain tube stations in a suspiciously short period of time, and asking them, in not so many words, what the bloody hell they think they’re playing at. Londonist, nest of career criminals that it …

The Mayor of London, we’ve noted, is a man who seems a little vague on the average wage, has shown scant interest in bringing down the city’s stratospheric housing costs, and seems to think that buses exist primarily to make the whole place look like …

A car, abandoned on Hammersmith Road, somewhat worse for wear after a rather nasty smash with two other cars and a lorry yesterday lunchtime. The driver and a passenger were seen to grab a bag from the boot, before leaving on foot. Exactly why they …