The Faded Grandeur Of London’s Old Town Halls
Photos of long-forgotten bits of the capital’s municipal architecture.
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London Facing Terrifying School Places Drought
The city has, literally, more children than it knows what to do with.
Government Vs City Hall In Economic Growth Funding Spats
Boris wants more money, government says he’s not spending what he’s got.
Boris Wants Government To Spend On Rail, Houses And Airport
Also reveals disturbing new insight into his relationship with David Cameron.
Rounding Up The News About The News of The World
Fed up of reading about it? The Metro presents it in pictures for you.
Council Cuts: Six More Councils Vote In Budgets
Barnet, Ealing, Hounslow, Kingston, Lewisham and Richmond sign on the dotted line.
Student Fees Protest: A View From The Front
Photo by Selenaaaaa from the Londonist Flickr pool Apparently the government have been surprised at how little public opposition there’s been so far to their programme of austerity cuts. Well, yesterday, as thousands of student protesters laid siege to the Conservative party offices, smashed windows, …
Government Plans Act Of Parliament To Evict Brian Haw
Photo / daredevil_81 Anti-war protestor and near-permanent fixture across from the Commons, Brian Haw, will be subject to another attempted eviction when the Government rushes through special laws to oust him, according to the Standard. Haw’s nine-year old encampment was left remarkably unscathed earlier this …
Government Minister Lays Into Eurostar
Europe minister Chris Bryant has used Twitter, fast becoming a tool of the irked and the wronged, to launch a volley of invective against Eurostar. Ensnared for the second day in a row by trouble on the line, Bryant fumed that he is “rapidly developing …
Never A Frown With Gordon Brown
Image by buckaroo kid Have you ever wanted to look just like Gordon Brown? That lugubrious glare, that serial-killer smile, that pallid countenance can now be yours thanks to the anonymous junior staffer who accidentally left notes on Gordy’s makeup routine in the back of …
A Right Honourable Mess
Image by Shutterbuguy As the damning revelations about Labour MPs expenses rattled round Fleet Street last week and plunged the cranium of Gordon Browns government further into the cistern, Tory members would’ve done well to hold their laughter at “two Johns” Prescott and the sputtering …
