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Boris and the politics of language. Or should that be the language of politics?

June 16th, 2008 No Comments

Further to Mr. Stop Boris’ post on Rise: London United Against Racism comes the news that Boris only tells certain people certain things. Here’s the official press release on this year’s festival:
The Rise festival is a free event organised by the Greater London Authority and supported by Canary Wharf, Transport for London, British Transport Police [...]

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Signalling Through The ‘Fog Of Confusion’

June 4th, 2008 2 Comments

The members of the London Assembly have called into question “the manner and nature” of the appointment of Boris’s advisers. The Business Management and Administration Committee, to whom the revealing finance report was originally delivered, have demanded answers to a series of questions including:

The cost and length of appointment of each of the 15 ‘consultants’.

The [...]

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State of London Debate slashed

May 25th, 2008 6 Comments

Without wanting to distract from today’s main news, which should certainly be your main concern if you have only time to read about one thing (summary: Boris intends to make 80,000 of the poorest Londoners poorer still as soon as possible), I wanted to post something about this too.
Last year, one Saturday in May, I [...]

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