The Mayor should not hope to diminish the Ian Clement scandal by announcing improvements to the Tube
Read full article...The number of Transport for London managers earning more than £100,000 rose by a third in Boris Johnson's first year as Mayor, new figures out next week will show.
Its effectiveness in Iran is overrated but it is the belief in change that matters, and which is being spread online
As a reporter for Channel 4's Dispatches, I make the kind of programmes which stand to gain from the "top-slicing" of the BBC licence fee proposed today. Yet until recently, I would have been aghast at the idea.
London MP caught in a new expenses row after Evening Standard investigation finds she has been using taxpayers' cash to fund her constituency party
The charity which owns most of central Greenwich is seeking planning permission to demolish the town’s historic market and replace it with a “Bluewater-like” precinct
How would Arthur Daley have shifted this lot? A set of London’s bendy buses are up for sale — the first step of Boris Johnson’s pledge to eradicate the “miserable, inhuman and socialistic” vehicles from the city
The backlash against the big parties is undeniable but it doesn't seem to be benefiting the BNP as much as you might think
Great Ormond Street Hospital has been accused of mounting a spin campaign to cover up its failings over Baby P
Boris Johnson has saved a much-loved community market that was lined up to be demolished and replaced with a tower block
A senior doctor told how he had repeatedly warned about failings at the child protection clinic which missed the injuries that killed Baby P
A scheme to demolish a market in east London and replace it with a tower block has been approved by City Hall planners
Great Ormond Street managers ignored top-level warnings
As Jacqui Smith's death notices are published in all the newspapers, one further Home Office corpse is still, for the moment, twitching
The Labour peer at the centre of the latest parliamentary allowances row is a social housing tenant who appears to have benefited from a second taxpayer subsidy on her London home
Britain's six-year presence in Iraq, which formally ended today, is finishing as it began: in deceit.
On the face of it, our YouGov poll today - rather astonishingly, the first proper test of Londoners' opinions on the mayoralty since last year's election - is great news for Boris Johnson. But interred in the detail are some glimmers of trouble
By all accounts, Georgia Gould is bright, determined and personable. She cannot help it that her dad, Lord Gould, also fathered New Labour. It seems clear, too, that she has been the target of a Damian McBride-style briefing campaign.
Holes in the road that are not being worked on will be covered with steel plates so traffic can drive over them, Boris Johnson announced
The Ian Tomlinson affair has nasty parallels with that of de Menezes. What happened to the change and strong leadership the new Met Commissioner was meant to bring?
Thorny issue for Sir Stuart Rose
Les Hinton on who knew what on NoW bugging
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