Boris Watch

It’s lovely when Boris goes into bat on behalf of London with his own party’s cost-slashing fringe, but I’m not entirely sure his new tactic’s going to win many friends.  The New Statesman (an odd enough place for Boris to be holding court, and indicative of a change in the PR weather over City Hall [...]

As we reported last week, the Mayor’s website has had a make-over. The new, purged website  now has a crazy, Commie-style flickr group which apparently is an “opportunity for Londoners to get involved in government and own London.gov.uk in a way that’s open and accessible to almost everyone.”
It wasn’t long before Dan Ritterband was forced [...]

I went shopping in Covent Garden today (thermal underwear, if you’re asking).  As is the way of these things, I went from Chiswick to Waterloo on South West Trains which, owing to the train being late, skipped every stop after Barnes and arrived in 16 minutes.  So far so good – off-peak Z3-Z1 Oyster NR/TfL [...]

We’ve usually put the end-2011 bendy replacement deadline down to political expediency (before the May election) and cost (before the TfL cut-off after which all buses have to be hybrids) but a third, rather delicious option has emerged from the Olympic Delivery Authority.  Basically the ODA have just announced that First Group are the winning [...]

The Mayor of London’s website, www.london.gov.uk has recently undergone a make-over. It was due to be up and running by the end of 2009 but has finally made an appearance today. However, it’s littered with lorem ipsum which should all have been replaced with the correct text before the website went live.
There are no links [...]

Don’t normally do churnalism, but this press release from the Lib Dems is 100% right, so why bother rewriting it?  You got a long piece about Kit and the Cops last night, so what more do you want?  Blood?
“It says everything about the Mayor’s real concern over improving rail services fact that it has taken [...]

Firstly, can I say I welcome Kit Malthouse using Twitter more often, which is a good thing.  Having said that, I’m now going to get up his nose a bit.  The most recent tweet from the man Adam Bienkov refers to as:
Deputy Mayor for Policing, Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority, Departmental Lead Advisor for [...]

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I was at yet another Science Museum Centenary Lecture last night*, so missed it, but there was an interesting meeting in the Rocket pub in Acton last night between the local community, TfL, LOROL, Network Rail and, apparently:
…two prospective parliamentary candidates, five councillors and one member of the London Assembly [anyone know who?  Tony Arbour? [...]

Regular readers will know that we’ve long wondered why Boris and Kulveer pretend that the NB4L is around a £3m cost to TfL, when any moderately informed back-of-envelope calculations bring things in a lot higher.  Let’s remind ourselves of Boris’s public statement in response to a 14th October 2009 question from Labour’s Val Shawcross:
The TfL [...]