How did Transport for London’s announcement that Barclays had agreed to sponsor the bike hire scheme for a further three years and provide an additional £25m end with the bank walking away without any prior warnings?
What’s Boris’s true record on zero-hour contracts?
According to today’s Guardian, the Mayor is “under fire” because “40 people working at his City Hall headquarters are employed on zero-hours contracts.” But despite the headline and opening paragraph’s attempts to link the Mayor personally to this ‘outrage’, the 40 staff in question don’t work for him but for subcontractors hired by the Greater […]
TfL ends 2013 more open, more transparent and more accountable than ever before
Our friends at Transport for London have delivered an early Christmas present – the final copy of their new sponsorship policy which sets out how they’ll solicit third-party funding for new and existing services in the future. The policy stems from the London Assembly’s ‘Whose brand is it anyway?’ report and a draft copy was […]
Labour has already decided you’re going to vote for [Insert Candidate Name] in 2016
Last night four of the likely contenders to be the next Labour candidate for Mayor of London took part in an event that we were assured was not in any way a hustings but which spent quite a lot of time talking about Ken, Boris and City Hall anyway.
The real difference between Ken’s ticket office closures and Boris’s? 6 years
Yesterday we finally learnt the fate of the Tube network’s ticket offices – they’re all being axed. Predictably Boris’s political rivals had some fun had at his expense by reminding Londoners that in 2008 he promised to scrap Ken Livingstone’s policy of closing ticket offices in the wake of Oyster’s success. As I’ve said before, […]
