Transport for London’s online archive of press releases has been deleted, reports Snipe. As Daryl explains: “TfL’s website contains eight years’ worth of the organisation’s press releases. That’s four years under Ken Livingstone, four years under Boris Johnson. More than enough for the armchair fact-checker to work out if the mayor’s living up to his […]
Martin Hoscik
MOPC should be the first step to delivering a Cabinet for London
When Boris Johnson first took office he created a group of so-called deputy mayors, bestowing what he once boasted we’re “bauble” titles on his appointees with little rhyme or reason. Then and now I thought this was cheating voters, it was an attempt by Boris to palm off the job he’d just been given onto […]
London’s ‘Deputies’ show the big beasts how it’s done
London’s Guildhall served as the backdrop for an interesting debate between two would-be and one stand-in Deputy Mayors on Wednesday. The debate was organised by Central London Forward, a body representing the seven central London local authorities: Camden, City of London, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Southwark and Westminster. Val Shawcross and Caroline Pidgeon, running […]
WIth their insults and jibes, Boris and Ken are letting Londoners down
Ken’s tax arrangements, Boris’s salary, trotskyists, chickenfeed and now ‘part time Tories’ – this year’s Mayoral election is turning into a depressing exchange of personal jibes and insults. Try not to laugh too loudly, but I was hoping an election contest between an incumbent Mayor and his immediate predecessor would provide Londoners with a choice […]
Privatising policing would place commercial confidentiality ahead of accountability
Here in London we’re not allowed to know the full details of contracts between Transport for London and Barclays and Emirates and we’re not allowed to know how London & Partners are spending their taxpayer grant. Commercial confidentiality is endlessly cited in response to requests for information. The horrendous, failed, wasteful and expensive Tube PPP […]
