Has the final wheel come off Boris Johnson’s ‘New Routemaster’ policy? The good thing about it was that it came with a promise to restore conductors to the routes currently served by the bendy buses Johnson wants to replace: a bus with a conductor is …
Does anyone know who’s winning? On Monday, according to YouGov, it was Boris Johnson by a massive 13 points. But on Wednesday, according to Ipsos-MORI, it was Ken Livingstone by one, prompting The London Paper to dub him ‘Comeback Ken’. So, is Ken coming back …
Ah, Brian Paddick. He’s almost as much of a media figure as Boris Johnson, which is pretty well why the Lib Dems opted for him as their challenger to the court of Ken (as we noted at the time). This Londonista even remembers sharing the …
The Blond is immortalised in song, courtesy of MankiniMan.
ULU hustings shot courtesy of lewishamdreamer’s Flickrstream The shape of the remainder of the mayoral race came into sharper focus last week thanks to one conspicuous absence, one opinion poll and three supposedly “secret” children. The absence was Boris Johnson’s from Time Out’s hustings at …
Having previously interviewed Sian Berry, the standard-bearer for the Greens now currently in a pact (electoral, not economic or suicide we assume) with Labour’s Ken Livingstone, Londonist sent a set of common questions out to (most of) the other candidates in the May 1st mayoral …
And they’re off! The runners and riders have bolted from their stables and the London mayoral race is now officially underway. Braced to face scabrous attack of their respective transport and environmental policies, and the bleatings of Madonna, betting on the field continues to swing …
It’s still difficult to tell how the mayoral race is going – where are all the opinion polls? But there’s no doubt that, in the past week, the Livingstone campaign has made a huge effort to get its show on the road. The launch of …
Here’s what we’ve learned while you’ve been battening down your hatches and bringing the cattle in: In the weekend crime round-up…police were rather cross to be shot at on Friday, while there was an unseemly brawl outside Claire’s Accessories (we blame the pink feather boas). …
The clearest thing to emerge from the mayoral race this week is that no one can agree about buses. The arguments began last Wednesday when Boris Johnson told Vanessa Feltz that the ’21st Century’ Routemasters he wants to replace bendy buses with would all have …
Our environmentally sustainable Mayor is taking on the IOC bigwigs who are demanding VIP fast lanes for a fleet of up to 3000 cars “to take officials, politicians and corporate sponsors to venues” at the 2012 Games. No fool he, cunningly waiting until they’d finished …
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