Missile launchers on a council tower block, a 1,500 seat McDonalds and security conscious staff handing out plastic bags to any visitor who has a liquid, are not the kind of things I associate with being green. However, the Games are such a mix of environmental upsides and downsides that I can’t claim to have […]
Can you solve the mystery behind Project X?
As reported last week, the London Transport Museum has a new live theatre attraction which goes by the name of Project X. I went along on Saturday morning to join the very first public performance. Here are a few thoughts about what I think will prove to be a ‘must see’ addition to one of […]
TfL must renegotiate its contact with Barclays
“There are also risks to TfL’s reputation if the branding of public assets is deemed to be excessive, from choosing inappropriate sponsors, or if sponsors suffer major reputational damage.” So warned the London Assembly in it’s February 2012 report Whose brand is it anyway? – An Examination of TfL’s Sponsorship Policy. Assembly Members reported that […]
Boris should play nice with AMs, his police reforms could rely on their support
Assembly Members could make powerful allies for Stephen Greenhalgh and Boris Johnson as they force through the needed changes.
How Bernard Hogan-Howe spends some of his 200 working days a year
Last week’s claims that Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe was too busy to appear before the Assembly seem to support my past suggestion (2mins 15 seconds) that London has police scrutiny by consent. There has been a lot of criticism of Boris’s policing deputy Stephen Greenhalgh, but I remain convinced that Hogan-Howe deserves more criticism than […]
