The end of City Hall’s summer break was formalised today with the first Mayor’s Question Time session since July when would-be Mayoral candidate Oona King made what records suggest was her first visit to the event.
Oona King’s Culture Policy – Now Wash Your Hands
Oona King’s culture policy is not exactly a heavyweight document – littered with management-speak such as “hygiene factors” (no more comprehensible to ordinary Londoners than the Latin phrases with which Boris Johnson likes to pepper his speeches and documents), it chooses to concentrate on re-inventing the wheel rather than coming up with genuine innovation. She […]
Can Boris distance himself from ‘Tory cuts’?
So after months of speculation we finally know Boris Johnson will defend his “good record” and seek re-election as Mayor of London in 2012. Boris’s new campaign website lists some of the achievements he believes make up that record and I’m sure we all can’t wait to cast a critical eye over them in the […]
Oona King: My vision for London
London is at a crossroads and Labour Party and trades union members have an important choice to make about its future. Early next month, they will be asked to choose the Labour candidate for the 2012 Mayoral contest. I’m fighting for London’s future, not Labour’s past and I am the candidate with the best chance […]
Ken Livingstone: I want to protect and promote London’s music scene
London’s music scene is part of its life blood. For generations London has been the place to go to see live music. The music scene is also important to London’s economy. A quarter of all people working in music do so in London. The UK is the third biggest music market in the world after […]
