About
This site started on Friday 2nd May, the day after the London mayoral elections when it became clear that Ken Livingstone had lost the mayoralty to Boris Johnson.
It started as an act of frustration, at the loss to apparent personality politics, and the accusation that somehow young people are to blame.
Authors
Naadir Jeewa
Naadir Jeewa is an undergraduate student in Politics and Society at Birkbeck University. He also works in IT up the road at University College London.
His interests are in civil society discourse surrounding climate change, its impacts and possible responses in terms of paradigm shifts in International Relations and transnational approaches. These interests are explored at his other blog, Random Variable.
For the public record, when he was 18, he once spent three months as a member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir, but left over a disagreement over whether to trust Max Weber or an angry Palestinian lawyer for an accurate explanation of the origins of capitalism, and is now religiously unmusical. He also holds a lapsed Green Party membership.
Tom Barry
Tom Barry is a scruffy IT guy currently working for a major ISP. An engineer by training and inclination, he has lived in London for the last eleven years and currently mooches about somewhere under the Heathrow flightpath being periodically attacked by his hyperactive offspring. A semi-regular writer at Blairwatch since 2006, he has never been a member of a political party but, if pressed, would define himself as a liberal, further defined as ‘not suffering from the disease of ideology’. Main blogging interests are transport issues and the law, with a side order of military lunacy. If elected, he promises to read through TfL Board minutes so you don’t have to.