Clarke Remains Defiant After Lords Defeat Home Secretary Charles Clarke has vowed to battle on with his proposed ID cards legislation after it was defeated in the Lords last night. Their Lordships, many of whom come from a law background, feel that making the cards …
One hundred years is a deucedly long time in the life of a great city. And much has changed, as this selection box of statistics shows. Figures are for greater London, unless otherwise stated. The first number indicates the 1905 value, the second shows the …
- Ken’s inernational climate change meeting kicks off today. 300 metric tons of carbon-dioxide permits were bought on the mayor’s behalf so travel to the meeting doesn’t damage the environment further. – Police have spoken to a potential witness in the Sally Anne Bowman murder. …
Ok, so it’s not a whole football team, it’s eight players from across two teams…but it’s Monday morning and thinking up vaguely clever headlines is a little beyond us. So here’s what happened: two teams from Zimbabwe came over to the UK last week to …
The Independent Police Complaints Commission inquiry into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes is appealing for witnesses to the incident. At the same time the police have also released a statement saying that the 27-year-old’s visa had expired two years ago, and the passport …
Ken Livingstone is a bit obsessed with the media, it’s true. In fact you could go as far as saying that he hates journalists and anyone related to the media world. Which may be why he’s now launched the London Local Press Awards to “recognise …
Londonist just finished watching last night’s special edition of BBC One’s Question Time in which a live audience grappled with the three main party leaders – if you missed it like we did first time round then there’s a web version here (link on the …
There’s a report over at the BBC today which claims that 2005 will be a bumper year for tourists coming to London: Visitors from the EU rose from 5.7 million in 2003 to 6.5 million last year, while US visits rose from 2.6 million to …
“Green army to halt weed invasion,” runs the BBC headline, designed to fire the imagination if nothing else. The Evening Standard is, as ever, far more restrained and less alarmist: “BLUEBELLS FACE DEATH FROM GIANT KILLER WEED,” it howls. Poor show for not being able …
The PM spent a portion of this morning sitting in Buckingham Palace asking the Queen to dissolve Parliament, perhaps nibbling a Mr Kipling’s Fondant Fancy (or if you’re a fan of David Icke, dancing naked in the guts of small children and laughing about the …
There’s an election coming, and regardless of where your politics may lie, it does at least mean the return of the always entertaining election poster. Distilling complex political theory down into a single slogan or image may seem way too complex to achieve but luckily …
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