It comes to something when Boris, who as we’ve seen has trouble reporting the real world correctly is now making up his own facts about literature.  Via Tom Phillips, who was the first to write down what to many of us seemed rather a bizarre set of comments by Boris and concluded, bluntly that […]

Last week, a passenger on a New Bus For London vehicle on route 24 sustained a life-threatening head injury after falling out of the open rear door.

Until the exact circumstances are known, it is pointless to surmise how and why this incident occurred. Another passenger on the New Bus For London on […]

It’s hardly a secret that Boris has managed to con the Government into sending his overweight, costly, unsafe and ludicrously ugly buses on a World Tour – the first two vehicles, LT1 and LT2 are actually on loan to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.  They’ve now been joined by LT3, which was shipped out over […]

Latest Q1 2013-14 TfL operations, finance and projects report is an interesting read with an interesting and rather slick new presentation.  The embarrassing bit’s buried in the middle, though, in the section on Underground major projects:

SUP: The work to immunise London Underground (LU) and Network Rail (NR) track circuits is now being progressed […]

Another in the series, this one the classic Boris ‘mildly sandpapered’ type that got him sacked from the Times, shaping a fact to fit a speech or argument such that it is no longer a fact.  As usual this seems to be a regular in his current act, so, like London’s mythical Michelin stars […]