After three sets of Greater London Authority elections it seems clear that the mainstream media are never going to give Assembly candidates any meaningful level of coverage for as long as they can focus instead on the Mayoral candidates from the three major national parties.

As someone who has spent much of the 9 years since London Government was restored calling for greater power I’ll welcome anyone prepared to sign up the cause but today’s ‘city charter’ is pretty lightweight and lacks much in the way of vision and, though I’ve tried really hard, I just don’t get Boris’s fascination with coysing up to borough politicians.

London politicians and commentators are being mined for comments on Boris Johnson’s first year in office, but it’s far too early to proclaim on his success or failure and I won’t be joining the rush to mark him out of ten.

MayorWatch editor Martin Hoscik on the spat over police accountability in London, the stalled debate on London’s devolutionary settlement and the dangers of GLA abolition from a ‘do less’ mindset.

It seems some people are getting very excited about Boris Johnson’s appearance in front of the Commons Transport Committee, but while the media focus on yet another storm in a tea cup, I’m left wondering what Boris was doing there in the first place.