Last week Ken Livingstone suggested City Hall could take over the rest of London’s suburban rail services. Regardless of their political leanings, I suspect many Londoners will think that’s a pretty decent ambition even if they question how Livingstone can be so sure of the cost savings he claims in support of it. Transport for […]
Martin Hoscik
How did Boris throw away an 8 point lead?
In less than a year Boris Johnson has tuned an 8 point lead over Ken Livingstone into a 2 point deficit. Was it his decision to push through fare hikes even when City Hall’s own polling showed the cost of travel was a huge concern to Londoners? Perhaps his late return home as London burned […]
The MPA: Scrutinising to the end, but what comes next?
This morning’s final meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) could have been a brief affair. Authority members could have turned up, nodded through the few reports before them and swanned off for a few glasses of civic wine and dry sarnies. Instead they went out the same way they’ve spent the past 11 years […]
Ken needs to calm down
On Tuesday Ken Livingstone’s election campaign launched a new poster campaign advising of a ‘pickpocket’ operating on public transport. The pickpocket was of course Livingstone’s chief opponent and incumbent Mayor, Boris Johnson. Given that fares are the only part of Livingstone’s campaign to come close to capturing the public’s imagination, it’s easy to see why […]
How much is London & Partners spending on sponsoring industry awards?
Yesterday London & Partners, our new-ish promotional agency, proudly tweeted that it had signed up as the headline sponsor of the M&IT Awards. A full list of sponsors can be seen here. On Twitter and via an email to their press office, I asked how much the sponsorship was costing and whether this sum came […]
