Over the past few weeks staff at Ken Livingstone’s HQ (also known as the ‘glass testicle’) have noticed cracks in some of the building’s huge floor-to ceiling glass panels. The building, designed by Sir Norman Foster opened in 2002 and cost £43 million. But now …
London may have got rid of it’s highwaymen a long time ago but the stagecoach lives on. Indeed there are over three hundred of them on the streets of the city today. How? Well, we’re actually talking about those peddle-powered rickshaws that have been springing …
Ken Livingstone’s campaign to have just about everything happen in London continued this week when he submitted a revised bid for London to host the start of the 2007 Tour de France. Ken was at the dinner to celebrate the Entente Cordiale bike race between …
Every so often something enters the public consciousness so quickly that you forget what life was like before it was introduced. Think Pret a Manger; think bendy buses; think automatic ticket barriers at Charing Cross station. The lastest candidate for the “Remember the time that …
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