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Private Eye on ‘Mayor Scandal’

July 10th, 2008 8 Comments

This spoof item in the latest Private Eye is quite good.

I must try and fix my scanner at some point, so I don’t have to keep taking photos of things instead of scanning them.
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A Lift In The Living Wage for London

July 10th, 2008 No Comments

Following their report A Fairer London, the GLA has announced that Boris is raising the Living Wage for London to £7.45. This is 25p higher than the previous Living Wage and 35% higher than the national minimum wage.
In a statement, they report that “one in seven employees receive less than the £6.50” and “one in [...]

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Boris fritters another £40,000 away

July 10th, 2008 7 Comments

The Tory Troll explains how our ‘Value for Money’ Mayor has taken another great decision: to spend £40,000 on a new London.gov.uk web site, to replace the perfectly functional and usable existing web site.
Accessible and standards-based web design is something of a specialist subject for me so I’ll be interested to see what London gets [...]

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