tessa jowell

In which: We keep our fingers crossed: for the baby who fell three floors out of a Tooting flat today. We are sceptical: about Dave’s brave new Big Society. We ask: is Wembley about to get a shiny new high street? We learn: that Martin …

Tessa Jowell, the Labour MP and previous Olympic minister, is showing up as a location on Google Maps. The map positions her in in the eastern portion of the Palace of Westminster, a little ways south of the clock tower. She doesn’t show up at …

The Hammers’ hopes of planting themselves in the Olympic stadium post-2012 have receded after Olympic minister Tessa Jowell rubbished the idea. Speaking during her taxpayer-funded jolly fact-finding mission in Vancouver, Jowell insisted that the stadium would be used to host England’s second most popular sport, …

Image / RobBeer Frenchman PY Gerbeau — you’ll recall him, perhaps not fondly, as the Millennium Dome chief during the ill-fated ‘Experience’ of 2000 — has hit upon a novel way of solving the budgetary excess of 2012: scrap the Games entirely. Speaking on BBC2′s …

The dynamic tag team of Boris Johnson and Tessa Jowell are in agreement: let’s move badminton and rhythmic gymnastics to Wembley Arena. Jowell has changed her stance in a compromise that sees Boris drop his opposition to holding shooting events at Woolwich. Badminton and gymnastics …

Remember when Alistair Darling was mocked for suggesting just a few months ago that economic times were the “worst in 50 years“? Nobody’s laughing now, particularly as the bad news piles up quicker than unopened Amex bills in the mailbox of a credit-crunched City worker. …

The government’s hypocritical attempts to push smoking towards the brink of criminality – while continuing to rake in a healthy sum in tobacco taxes – reached new depths this week with the announcement that displays of tobacco will be banned from 2012. BBC News has …

Mystery surrounds the discovery of a body at the bottom of a lift shaft in Kingston… …whilst another man has been found fatally stabbed at a house in Lewisham. Tessa Jowell rants foolishly at 2012 sponsors. Tube sponsorship could be on the way… …as could …

Given our own Olympic Minister’s ill conceived remarks recently as to whether, “Had we known what we know now..” about the economy, “would we have bid for the Olympics? Almost certainly not” and the ongoing struggle to cut costs by employing top price KPMG consultants …

If only Londonist had a political crystal ball. We’ve done a quick-and-dirty analysis of this weekend’s disquiet on the Labour benches with Gordon Brown/the direction of the Labour party/the lack of an open debate about leadership/whatever-you-want-to-call-the-current-media-bun-fight, and it seems to us that the revolt is …