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The Electoral Commission have today revealed the findings of their investigations into the cash for honours row, and it makes for an interesting read. The Tories were loaned £2.5m between April and June this year, the Lib Dems £782,780. But it was the Labour Party’s …

Many Londoners just can’t be arsed with cars. They are expensive to run, it takes ages to get anywhere, and they still have to pay congestion charge (to Madonna’s disgust). Of the six million Londoners who do drive, one million of them are unlicensed and …

As we reported yesterday, A rather rain-soaked Nick was on Resonance 104.4FM’s show The Big Issue last night, with fellow political blogger James Graham of Quaequam and Alex Runswick of One Perfect Rose. The show was hosted by Mark Hanson. As soon as last night’s …

One of the reason that young people in Britain aren’t interested in politics is this: Politicians make policies with old people in mind. It’s true. The pensions whitepaper that came out today penalises young people, making them work until 68, whilst current elderly folks enjoy …

Some Scottish M.P.s are finding a bitter taste in their mouths after pledging their support to England in the imminent World Cup. Widely believed to be the Prime Minister-in-waiting, Gordon Brown is undoubtedly a Scot through and through. Whilst Tony Blair hides his Scottishness well, …

Poor Eric Forth. He died rather suddenly and tragically last week, which came as a great shock to his fellow M.P.s, to whom Forth was a well-liked and revered character. He was a parliamentarian to the core, making speeches without notes, and filibustering government legislation …

Londonist’s resident politics guy, Nick, will be on Resonance 104.4fm at 9.30pm tonight, on the stations political discussion show, The Issue, hosted by Mark Hanson. Nick has been on before, and after tonight’s show, we’ll give you the link to listen to both shows in …

Anyone who commutes into London via Liverpool Street knows the situation. You take the Circle via Tower Hill, to get off at Liverpool Street. But when the train gets to Aldgate, it often stops for up to 10 minutes, due to the sheer number of …

As we reported earlier, Parliament Square protestor Brian Haw has had his protest stripped down to just a couple of placards. Police turned up at 2:45am and removed most of his placards, and many of his possessions. Naturally, Londonist just had to go down to …

Here is the (belated) video we took from Westminster Bridge of the Airbus A380 dlying over London for the first time last Thursday. Apologies for the poor quality and rubbish camera-work, but this thing was HUGE, and surprisingly quiet for its size!