Boris Johnson enjoyed the backing of some heavyweight characters during his electoral campaign: the likes of Andrew Gilligan and James Whale were only to happy to heft their corpulent frames onto the Back Boris bandwagon, with Whale losing his radio show as punishment. A less …
It turns out that, contrary to popular media opinion, politics is alive and well with our great capital’s young. Last night we squeezed into the State of London Debate, an event at Central Hall Westminster hosted by Boris Johnson and his team. A ticket did …
When Boris scrapped The Londoner he was fulfilling a pledge to divert the money to tree planting and ‘protect and preserve‘ our open spaces. Today it was announced that we’ll be able to vote for our local park to get a slice of the £6m …
Happy birthday to you… Happy birthday to you… Yes, Boris Johnson’s 44 today. Bet his desk’s all decorated with balloons and there’s a smashing big cake for elevenses. However, there’s no day off for the birthday boy who had to get up jolly early to …
We can only assume that Boris Johnson, the man charged with finding a solution to London’s spate of tragic youth violence, has been delving into his own past for inspiration. As such, on his 16th birthday, every boy in London will receive a Michelin restaurant …
Boris Johnson has appointed Tim Parker as First Deputy Mayor and Chief Executive of the GLA. Mr Parker is also nominated as Chairman of Transport for London to succeed Boris – who has happily realised he perhaps shouldn’t be keeping too many plates in the …
Orhan* snaps Boris at the Sikh New Year festival of Vaisakhi in Trafalgar Square on Sunday, nicking a policeman’s hat As our new Mayor cycles to work, meets the team and starts taking action on annoying alcohol related transport policies, we took a poke about …
Tube scammer got £1m out of scam and is fined £11k. Go figure. Guide dogs not good at spotting 3ft deep sewage holes Royal gay sex blackmailers jailed On the edge of our bar stools for the election results… coming up around 20.30 Drive safely, …
The course of true democracy never did run smooth, as proved at some hapless polling stations in yesterday’s election fever. We say fever… it was more like a mild sweat. Polling officials in Barnet were certainly sweating when their ballot papers didn’t turn up on …
That’s the partisan message from Londonist today as Londoners go to the polling stations to choose their next mayor and members of the London Assembly. As we write we are reliably informed that a new YouGov poll for today’s Evening Standard will show Boris Johnson …
The day has finally arrived. After months of campaigning, it’s finally your turn to have your say and elect a London Mayor for the next 4 years. And not only that, as was highlighted yesterday, there are some other things you need to make your …
