Boris Watch

In May this year, Director Of Communications External Affairs, Guto Harri, and Director Of Environmental Policy, Isabel Dedring, both accompanied Boris Johnson on his jaunt to the C40 Summit in Seoul. Expenses covering this period for both Harri and Dedring have now appeared on the GLA website and I’ve noticed that both of them have [...]

Boring Boris, was my prediction at the Pro London debate earlier in the year, and Boring Boris is what’s getting some of the froth-prone contingent on the right of sensible wing of the Conservative Party worked up recently.  Take this from ConservativeHome owner Stephan Shakespeare (no, really, please take it, I don’t want it):
There’s no [...]

One of the striking bits of new thinking Boris was originally planning to bring to London government was the concept of a ‘Cabinet For London’, presumably designed to contrast with both the discredited ’sofa government’ of Tony Blair and the ‘crony’ system of Ken Livingstone, where the old rogue shamelessly appointed people he knew and [...]

Just got back from a morning walking the Skyride course, starting just after it was set up and ending back at Syon Park as it started to fill up.  A more in-depth report will follow later, but first thoughts and a couple of taster snaps:

They were lucky with the weather, possibly too lucky as it’s [...]

All signed up for the Mayor’s Hounslow Skyride are we?
No?  Well, neither am I – I’m buggered if I’m going to spend Sunday pootling [gmap] about Isleworth and Osterley advertising anything to do with Rupert Blasted Murdoch.  Instead I’m going to pretend to be an ordinary member of the public, hop on the bus and [...]

It’s just come to my attention that entry to the London Transport Museum, which had been free to Freedom Pass holders since the museum reopened in November 2007 after a two-year, £22 million refurbishment, has been charged at £8 for all senior citizens since 1 March this year.
The London Transport Museum is a subsidiary company [...]