Boris Watch

I’m not sure watching Mayor’s Question Time is doing a lot for my health – it’s certainly giving me a headache – but since I’m stuck at home ill it seems remiss not to tune in to the webcast.
So far I’ve been pleased to see two members of the Axis of Progress – the Greens’ [...]

So Boris did indeed axe the CO2 charge earlier, apparently losing TfL £30-60m a year in revenue, but he still claims to want to pursue the £500m, ten-year cycling programme Ken planned to fund with the extra income.
And now the Greens have spotted another bit of dodgy maths, in relation to the much-heralded savings on [...]

The mainstream media can be pretty sickening at times. Boris might originally have sneaked out the doubling of bus fares for London’s poorest on a Bank Holiday Sunday, but the news that he was definitely not going to find ‘alternative’ ways to keep their fares discounted came out on a perfectly ordinary weekday, today.
How did [...]