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We wouldn’t blame you if you did a double take at that headline. The Green Party is targeting three seats in the General Election: its Brighton stronghold, Norwich South and Lewisham Deptford. At first glance, South East London’s finest may not seem the most obvious …

Over at the Guardian, Dave Hill reports on what appears to be a spot of pre-election Wikipedia meddling on behalf of the Tories. The case concerns an entry on Shaun Bailey, Conservative candidate for the new seat of Hammersmith (a key marginal), which looks to …

Photo / Steve Punter For a man purporting to manage the nation’s security, shadow defence minister Liam Fox takes a surprisingly candid approach towards his own: the Tory frontbencher’s home in Southwark was burgled this morning by thieves who also pinched his car. Not his …

If you feel that all this election talk is getting a bit stale already, you’ll be glad to hear that from tomorrow Londoners will be able to indulge their political tastes in a much more palatable fashion at Bompas and Parr’s Parliamentary Waffle House in …

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 …

This plucky buccaneer is hoping to stand as an Independent for the Cities of London and Westminster. His policies include tax breaks on rum, training in swordsmanship and gunnery, and the renaming of the iPad to the iPatch. He runs the UK chapter of the …

Lambeth’s local boy done good would have been celebrating his 121st birthday tomorrow. Famous as a filmstar, he also pioneered a certain arrangement of facial hair. Some argue that Hitler did it first but Chaplin surely gets the credit as he had a rationale behind …

Image by Simon Wicks from the Londonist Flickr pool Boris is getting it flung at him from all angles today. The Assembly’s environment committee is calling for some detail, please, on how he intends the Waste Management Strategy to work (like who’s going to pay …

Photo / gitamalhotra The taciturn (and easily toyed with) visage of David Cameron on billboards around town clearly hasn’t convinced the denizens of Deptford, some of whom booed and heckled the Tory leader when he spoke at Lewisham College this morning. Showing a deep understanding …

The BBC has done a First Time Voters’ Question Time and now women’s charity Eaves is hosting a Women’s Question Time. Anyone would think there was a general election coming up. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown chairs the panel, made up of Vera Baird QC MP (Labour), Theresa …