Tired of pottering about the garden, watching daytime telly and staring folornly at City Hall, Ken Livingstone has found himself a retirement job: hosting a phone-in on London's LBC 97.3 radio. Like a Frasier for London, Ken will apply his knowledge of the City gleaned from many years in office to debate with, educate and probably rant at callers to the show. How London's cabbies (who seem to have LBC hard-wired into their radios)......

As the many and varied Mayors-to-be sit down for their christmas lunch, each will wonder whether in 12 months time they will be swapping the plate of turkey for a pile of draft mayoral press releases. So, are Boris, Ken or Brian looking more like winners or turkeys? Ken's Evening Standard spat thundered on, with ominous warnings of a horrid end for one of the two main characters. Hostilities climaxed with Ken demanding Andrew......