The mayor was pulling no punches when he ‘ruthlessly scuppered’ what he described as Gordon Brown’s pet project, the public-private partnership (PPP) which has left tube maintenance in disarray. After forking out £310m to bring the company under the TfL umbrella and (hopefully) an end …
Photo / the amanda One hundred open-air ping pong tables are to be introduced around London this summer. Ping London comes from the fertile mind of Colette Hiller, who last year plonked 30 pianos around town and invited Londoners to play them. In a similarly …
Image by SabineThoele from the Londonist Flickr pool We understand it’s generally frowned upon to begin a post with a torrent of swearing, but even so: fucking hell. Boris Johnson has managed to do what even Ken couldn’t and find a way out of the …
With able assistance from a jazz band and a troupe of Bollywood dancers, Boris Johnson arrived at Dalston Junction station this morning to officially open the East London line. Arriving on a train into the station, Boris mugged and gurned for the cameras in his …
Image by kenchie from the Londonist Flickr pool We know the specification, roughly what it’ll look like and who’s building it, and now the Times have come up with how much Boris’s new Routemaster buses will cost. And it works out at a massive £1.6m …
Photo by Luke Robinson Well, maybe not actually fish, but floating bicycles are being touted as the answer to London’s congestion by the Monster Raving Loony Party. The appropriately-named ‘Loony Bike’ was demonstrated on Sunday by the party’s very own shadow minister for big fibs …
Photo by steve w Boris Johnson has admitted that he may have bitten off more than he can chew with the unstoppable behemoth of London’s seemingly ceaseless roadworks. After his rant about the ‘endless craters’ in the roads, the introduction of fines for over-running work …
The Mayor joined David Cameron on the campaign trail this morning, visiting the Chelsea Pensioners out west London way. Yet in his first appearance with the Tory leader since the election was called, Boris quickly demonstrated why the party honchos might want to keep him …
By _Christo_ Our funkapolitan Mayor is telling the Olympic Board this morning just how fun London will be for the duration of the 2012 Games. Not only will the bus stops have Bus Tops and every borough be decked out in bunting but big screens …
Fatal shooting in Clapton. These people count the Queen as their landlady. They’re not happy she might be selling on. Brent Council crack down on paan spitting, with perhaps the weakest slogan of all time: “Don’t spit paan…it’s nasty man!”. Boris: “I’ll double the number …
Caroline Pidgeon used yesterday’s Mayoral Question Time to remind Boris of his manifesto pledge to keep the tube running an hour later on Fridays and Saturdays (an opening salvo, no doubt, in the centre-left Assembly parties’ bid to point out all the election promises yet …
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