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Why The Standard Can’t Keep Playing The Gilligan Card

June 26th, 2008 13 Comments

Andrew Gilligan has attempted to land a few tired punches on ‘da Left’ in today’s Evening Standard. After admitting that it “hasn’t been a good week for Boris“, he writes that the true danger is to ‘anti-Boris forces‘, or “Ken Livingstone groupies” as he charmingly dubs them elsewhere. It seems that scrutinisers of the administration [...]

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Boris takes the peace out of London

June 26th, 2008 2 Comments

Dave Hill reports that “Boris has withdrawn London’s membership of the global ‘Mayors for Peace’ initiative, founded by the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”.
Jenny Jones, London Assembly Member, who used to be London Chair of Mayors for Peace, isn’t impressed:
Mayors for Peace is an organisation working for cities and their residents to be free from [...]

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