Barack Obama comes to our fair city on Friday, hot-footing it from Paris and Berlin - where he today delivered a speech extolling the quest for "impossible hope". He leaves on Saturday. Whether or not you are wrapped up in his soaring rhetoric; if you are leaning toward McCain; and even if you still pine for Hillary - this man is making history, and is a star. He is within reach of breaking the......

Londoners tired of their foppish Mayor may have an unlikely saviour come the 2012 elections: bombastic businessman Alan Sugar has suggested that he might stand as Labour Party candidate in the next mayoral election. The ex-Amstrad boss and East End barrow-boy would certainly make a tough figurehead for the city. Whether the ability to amass heaps of dosh and shout at hapless apprentices on TV equips one to run the nation’s capital city is......

We've all done it. Sat in the pub, arguing about the merits of the mayoral candidates and perhaps, journos aside, thought, "if only they were all a bit more down-to-earth, a bit more normal, more like you and me..." Well, here's a solution. www.londonelectsYOU.co.uk gives everyone the chance to put themselves forward as an independent candidate. Yes, even you.* Or that ambitious, politically savvy mate of yours who you think would actually do a......