According to posts on Twitter, Boris Johnson has signed up online loan company Wonga to sponsor free travel on New Year’s Eve. The news is interesting because Transport for London’s press release announcing the release of the Christmas Travel guide made no mention of sponsorship, a huge difference with past years. Maybe TfL’s shyness is […]
Martin Hoscik
TfL staff travel – will Boris’s support hold firm?
The question of whether London’s transport workers and their significant others should continue to receive free travel could well become the next flashpoint between the capital’s politicians and transport unions. At this week’s Mayor’s Question Time Tory AM Gareth Bacon will ask Boris Johnson whether he considers Transport for London’s “insistence on taxpayer subsidised travel […]
Titanic, The Artefact Exhibition
The exhibition guides you chronologically through Titanic’s life – from design and construction through to the sinking and up to present day with the expeditions to recover the artefacts on display.
Boris’s dissident act needs work
‘The Mayor of London yesterday made a calculated, headline-grabbing interjection on a matter of national Government policy, putting him at odds with his own party leadership.’ No great surprise there, Mayoral observers have been writing about such incidents for the past decade – both Boris Johnson and predecessor Ken Livingstone are smart enough to know […]
Tower Hamlets and the myth of ‘the Ken effect’
Ken’s detractors are guilty of illogic and double standards, during Labour’s Mayor of London selection many of them claimed his appeal was waning and he’d lack the pulling power to ‘win back’ CIty Hall. This line of attack is now being conveniently set aside as they seek to blame the entirety of the Tower Hamlets loss on him.
