Boris Watch

I’ve been flicking through the increasingly infamous new Policy Exchange report – ‘Cities Unlimited’ – and, despite fairly extraordinary ambitions, much of it seems a little thin. The denunciations of the “beyond revival” northern cities have caused the bulk of the backlash, but with regards to London the authors fancy an urban expansion of at [...]

Going back to the the Venezuela Oil Deal for a moment, you may (the three of you who are interested in the minutiae, at least) remember that the deal was capped at $32m a year, or a percentage of the bus diesel use, whichever was lower.  Since the cost of diesel has rather risen, it’s [...]