Shortly after he was selected as Labour’s 2012 Mayoral candidate, Ken Livingstone promised to visit all 32 London boroughs as he gathers material for his manifesto. He’s now around two thirds of the way through his ‘Tell Ken’ days which consist of walkabouts/visits in the day and an open Q&A in the evening. I’ve already […]
Darling you were wonderful, you really were quite good…
If you were wandering past City Hall this morning you might have imagined you could hear strains of the Pet Shop Boys hit ‘Yesterday, when I was mad’ leaking from the building. In fact the sound was that of Assembly Members Kit Malthouse and Brian Coleman, respectively appointed by the Mayor as Chairs of the […]
Brian Paddick: ‘All Londoners need a good education and a stake in society’
Brian Paddick, one of four contenders hoping to become the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London, sets out the need to ensure all Londoner’s have a stake in society. Did the Tory and Labour rivals to be London’s Mayor in 2012 rise to the occasion when London faced one of its most serious crises in […]
Recall the London Assembly, it has questions to ask
When Adam and I interviewed Deputy Mayor of London Richard Barnes last year he made a very important point about the relevance of the London Assembly to ordinary Londoners: “I think there’s more the Assembly could do, good in-depth stuff rather than political point scoring. The objective of [the 7/7] report was to improve the […]
Jenny Jones: What we are seeing is mindless vandalism
Jenny Jones, Green member of the London Assembly and the party’s candidate for Mayor in 2012 has issue the following statement on the looting and disorder in London: What we are seeing is mindless vandalism, spreading first within London, and now in other cities, with no regard at all for the safety of other people. […]
