Browsing Boris Johnson’s 2012 re-election campaign site I was struck by the familiarity of a couple of the images illustrating blog posts on it – both seem identical (cropping aside) to images contained in the online gallery which Transport for London makes available to the media.
Martin Hoscik
London’s cable car scheme could be a first step to greater financial autonomy
The ‘halo effect’ of a successful cable car scheme would help City Hall bring investment to the nearby Enterprise Zone. If both schemes are managed properly the entire area could be as much of a destination as the South Bank and the car as popular as the London Eye.
MQT’s – Better Biggs and Boris but where’s Lembit?
Running around the chamber pulling down brightly coloured, oversized trousers, honking each other’s noses and dowsing each other with scraps of paper marked ‘water’ from a fire bucket will no longer be tolerated. That presumably is the message London Assembly Chair Dee Doocey has delivered to Boris Johnson and John Biggs since last month’s Mayor’s […]
Is Boris tripping over his own past rhetoric?
Just weeks before the 2008 Mayoral election Boris Johnson accused then incumbent Ken Livingstone of “using every branch of City Hall to push his electoral agenda.” The remark came in the midst of a row over publication of a Transport for London report into allowing motorcycles into bus lanes. He went on to say: “Londoners […]
People’s Question Time – it’s not meant for politicos
Last night a near capacity crowd came to Battersea Arts Centre to question the Mayor and 19 members of the London Assembly on their work and policies. These twice-yearly meetings were one of the better aspects of the original GLA bill although at only 2 per year it’ll take a few Mayoral terms for every […]
