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......

We've not lately delved into what's been bubbling away in the run-up to London's elections next year. So Wilkommen, Bienvenu, Welcome to this new and possibly occasional feature to catch up with what's going on out there. Let's have a rummage and see who's up and who's down: Mayor Ken fights back in a hefty spat with Evening Standard over a hatchet-job on his race advisor. Standard's tactics are questionable, but the story went......