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Most Of London On Ken’s Side

We kind of knew it already but now it’s official: according to a variety of polls taken over the past day or two, the majority of Londoners are coming out in support of Ken Livingstone. Here’s the facts: 66 percent of the 10,000 Londoners who …

The Roy Keane Bridge

Those mischievous Scots, Welsh and Irish have been at it again. When the London Development Agency opened their web poll to name the new “state-of-the-art” footbridge at Wembley, who’d have thought anyone would have hijacked it for their own ends? But you know, that’s exactly …

A-Z: Fifth Best London Book

If the results of the Time Out ‘best loved London books’ poll have taught us anything it’s that you have to be really specific when asking the public to vote for things. As the Guardian

Mayoral Metaphor Mayhem

Today’s Guardian (no online equivalent, sorry) reported on a recent Mori poll undertaken for the Greater London Authority, that reinforces what we as Londoners apparently already knew, everything is going just swell, London is now officially ace, and it’s all down to Ken Livingstone, the …

Bloc Party In At No. 2 In BBC ‘Sound of 2005′ List

London band Bloc Party had better prepare themselves for the inevitable ‘New Kids on the Bloc’ headlines as they came second in a BBC News poll of 110 critics and broadcasters. (New York band The Bravery topped the poll but we’ll let our friends at …

London Just Not Wondrous Enouugh

The New 7 Wonders Project is, as you might imagine, a project to find the Seven Wonders of the modern world. As with all things in ‘the modern world’ the winners of this exercise will be decided by an international public vote. The poll, which …

Landmark Idol

Some of the capital’s more legendary buildings are going up against each other in a poll to see which is the “capital’s best-loved view”. The Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge, the Gherkin, St Paul’s Cathedral, the Millennium Eye, Battersea Power Station and…erm, Liverpool Street Station …