Nick Boles is a key link between the Policy Exchange think tank and Boris Johnson’s mayoralty.  Nick Boles has done the decent thing and admitted he put Boris up to appointing Lewis, which is another bit of evidence (along with the Routemaster competition*) of Policy Exchange being able to put its ideas into practice [...]

Andrew Gilligoon, wetting himself about the sketch-a-Routemaster announcement:

“…what TfL tended to do when a route went from Routemasters to bendies was to reduce the frequency – so it should be easy enough to increase the frequency right back again.”

How true is this?  First off, only three routes went RM->bendy, the others were either [...]

I have no wish to distract you again from Tom’s superb post on the problems of the Routemaster, but this little nugget is worth extracting from the ether.

What’s everybody’s favourite erotic cinema director/Assembly member doing posting invective on an eighteen year old’s book review?

Cllr Richard Barnbrook

“Burke…you are full of [...]

With loud denouncements of the bemused onlookers, Iain Dale has thrown his hat into the ring .

“There’s nothing the left hate more than a black person who does well in the Tory party.”

That’s a pretty audacious assertion, Iain. You’ll need some strong material to substantiate it, won’t you?

“They look at successful [...]

Ooh, London Connections linked to us. Welcome, I’m a long time fan.

Anyway, in the long-running saga of bendy bus routes and contracts, the uk.transport.london newsgroup has turned its giant collective transport fact-collecting braindump on the subject and has some corrections for me. Their distilled wisdom appears to be:

25 and 73 have been [...]

One thing I’m pretty sure of about Lewis is that he thinks of himself as a tough guy (he may *actually* be a tough guy, even if he does apparently live in Milton Keynes) who doesn’t mind making waves and ‘rubbing people up the wrong way’. Given that, and his previous career (such as we [...]

From the Telegraph:

It since emerged that the Bishop of Barking wrote to the mayor less than two weeks after he appointed Mr Lewis warning him that he was no longer authorised to serve as a minister, and inviting him to get in contact to discuss the matter. The letter was never passed on [...]