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A couple have been murdered in Croydon: their son has been arrested. Boris. East Enders. Tonight. God has intervened in the threat to the Gaumont in Kilburn. The Devil’s work, on the other hand, can be seen in Croydon, where the council has ‘fessed to …

Camel jockeys hit Tower Bridge today. A derelict plot of land on Oxford Street is to be put to use as a temporary event venue. A convicted murderer with, um, psychological issues is studying for the Knowledge. Do you live in one of Boris’ proposed …

A few weeks ago we noted, with some surprise, the Mayor’s growing reputation as the man who does nothing. In a spirit of impartiality, then, it’s only fair to report that – just when most politicians are worrying about sun, sea and self-promotion – Boris …

Deputy Mayor Kit Malthouse squirms to the defence of his superior’s funding of Rape Crisis Centres. From campaigners Boris Keep Your Promise. Those of you who hate the ‘Fail’ meme, look away now.

Met troubles: one officer is being questioned over an alleged rape, whilst two others have been charged with theft. Samantha Orobator, the pregnant Brit jailed in Laos, is on her way home. Arsenal players have swung behind a fund-raising campaign at Great Ormond Street. The …

Photo by historicist from the Londonist flickr photopool. Only a week after “debendyficiation” of the streets of the capital started on route 507, and as passengers of said route are already asking for the bendies back, the Bus Service Review (pdf), by accountancy firm KPMG …

We expected chaos. We expected riots.The one thing we didn’t expect, in fact, was that it wouldn’t actually change a single thing. But, 15 months, into his reign, that seems to be the critics’ dominant narrative: Boris Johnson is the mayor who does nothing. Image …

The Met received 26% more complaints up to March than the previous year – that excludes the G20 kerfuffle. Boris accuses the EU of stifling the City. Not all divas act like divas: meet the opera singer who sung on with a broken leg. East …

Omid Djalili is a Muslim Jewish Homer Simpson from Chingford. Gosh we enjoyed typing that. Beckton Gas Works are looking for former employees to come along to a reunion. Islington is trying to attract more swifts to the borough…by playing birdsong from the lamp posts. …

Image courtesy of the UCL Conservative Society under a Creative Commons Attribution licence Think back to those heady days of April 2008, and you might remember Boris Johnson pledging to bring a new tone to London politics. Ken Livingstone, he said, was “treating the voters …