Whenever over the past few years I’ve grumbled about the difficulty of getting hold of some piece of information or other, there’s come an immediate and predictable rant from his critics that this is yet more evidence of poor behaviour by Boris and his team. But in truth calls for greater Mayoral transparency are as […]
Why won’t Boris make London & Partners open its books?
Just opposite City Hall, also located on the More London estate, are the offices of London & Partners, the capital’s tourist agency which was established by Mayor Boris Johnson in 2011. The Mayor provides the majority of L&P’s funding – last year he gave it £13.7m, almost three times the £5m received from commercial income […]
Boris takes on fire cuts critics with his best ever State of London performance
For the fifth year running, Boris Johnson last night faced an audience of ordinary Londoners at the State of London debate. After a run of identikit events at which Boris delivered largely the same speech, last night’s offered us three firsts for which it’s likely to prove memorable – the first time Boris has faced […]
High winds and tall ships close cable car for 210 hours
London’s cable car has been forced to close for more than 216 hours since it opened last July. New figures obtained by the Liberal Democrat group on the London Assembly show that the car closed for a total of 12,962 minutes between July 11th 2012 and April 18th 2013. The majority of closures were caused […]
TfL’s new website is the start of a London government digital revolution
Yesterday Transport for London gave me a preview of its upcoming and impressive looking new website which it says will radically improve the service it offers to the 250m Londoners and tourists who go online every year to find their away around the capital. Top of the list of changes is the use of ‘responsive […]
