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Ken’s wedding day: he wears old suit and arrives on Tube

Don't pay rail fines, says Ken Livingstone (who travelled without a ticket)

Ken: I said Brown was a liability and time has proved me right

Labour heavyweights plan mayoral bids to 'stop Ken'

Ken's arrogance cost him Mayor's job says Jowell

Beijing pays Ł20,000 for Ken’s junket to Games

Ken chalked up Ł13,000 expenses in his last year

Ken Livingstone refuses to appear before LDA audit panel

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'Knight on shining bicycle' Boris Johnson chases off attackers

04.11.09

NEW: Boris Johnson reveals how he reacted instinctively when he rescued a woman who was being attacked by hoodies armed with a metal bar... more

Boris Johnson sacked me because he felt threatened, says Sir Ian Blair

02.11.09

When head of the Met, Sir Ian Blair, walked into the Mayor's office last October, he saw a far tougher side to the usually ebullient Boris Johnson... more

'Our Obama moment will be electing a black Mayor'

02.11.09

Britain will experience the 'Obama effect' in full when a black man or woman becomes Mayor of London, according to one of the country's leading playwrights... more

Strange but true: is Boris just the new Ken?

21.10.09

He loves tall buildings and winding up his party leader. The Mayor is turning out to be a lot like his predecessor... more

Ken’s wedding day: he wears old suit and arrives on Tube

28.09.09

Former mayor Ken Livingstone wore an old suit to his low-key wedding, took the Tube to the ceremony and didn't even have a honeymoon... more

The abolitionists’ fallen hero is desperate for every penny

24.09.09

The western extension of the congestion charge was Ken Livingstone’s statement of intent following the successful introduction of the original, central zone, charge... more

Google the stars' favourite haunts

15.07.09

Some of the capital's most famous residents have revealed their favourite places for a new Google guide of 'hidden London'... more

Ken landed taxpayer with Ł16,000 fine-dining bill in 4 years as mayor

08.07.09

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Don't pay rail fines, says Ken Livingstone (who travelled without a ticket)

23.03.09

Ken Livingstone, who once led a crusade against fare dodgers, has called on ticket cheats to refuse to pay fines after being let off a Ł20 penalty... more

Livingstone: Boris can't help himself on race

18.03.09

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Livingstone caught without a train ticket

18.03.09

Ken Livingstone has been caught travelling on a train without a ticket despite declaring "freeloaders will not be tolerated" when he was mayor... more

Ken: I said Brown was a liability and time has proved me right

18.03.09

Ken Livingstone has launched a savage personal attack on Gordon Brown, criticising his handling of the economy and blaming the Prime Minister's national polling for costing him the mayoral election... more

Sir Alan Sugar is asked to run for Mayor

27.02.09

Sir Alan Sugar has been approached to be Labour's candidate for London Mayor in an attempt to stop Ken Livingstone standing again... more

Labour heavyweights plan mayoral bids to 'stop Ken'

26.02.09

Senior Labour figures are planning to run for Mayor of London as "stop Ken" candidates... more

Spare London’s skyline yet another episode of these faulty towers

24.02.09

Ken Livingstone loved high-rise and now, despite election promises, Boris Johnson is following suit. We mustn’t let this steel and glass anarchy ruin our capital’s landscape... more

Ken sets out his stall for 2012

24.02.09

Ken Livingstone's forthright interview with this newspaper today should serve as a sharp corrective for anyone who believed that the former Mayor's defeat by Boris Johnson last May marked the end of his political career... more

Five years of the congestion zone

27.11.08

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New target for cheap housing

20.11.08

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Watchdog launches inquiry into mayoral conduct

10.11.08

Britain's sleaze watchdog has started an inquiry into the London mayoralty... more

Ken's arrogance cost him Mayor's job says Jowell

23.09.08

Minister for London Tessa Jowell has admitted that Ken Livingstone's perceived arrogance could have lost him the mayoral election... more

Labour must move on after Ken's errors, says minister

22.08.08

Ken Livingstone lost the mayoral election because he failed to treat knife crime seriously enough and ignored London's suburbs, a government minister said... more

Beijing pays Ł20,000 for Ken’s junket to Games

15.08.08

Ken Livingstone was given a £20,000 free trip to the Olympics by the Chinese government... more

Bob Kiley's house still for sale - after 15 months and Ł1.4m price cut

15.08.08

The property bought for Ken Livingstone's former transport commissioner for £2.2 million has failed to resell after more than a year on the market... more

Comment: Absurd payoff for Ken's cronies

04.08.08

Our revelation that £1.6 million of public money is being used to pay off the eight closest advisers of the former mayor, Ken Livingstone, is a scandal... more

Ken cronies' Ł1.6m payoff

04.08.08

Eight of Ken Livingstone's closest "cronies" are to receive pay-offs totalling £1.6 million after he changed the rules before he lost the election... more

Comment: Why didn't Boris fight these payouts on principle?

04.08.08

There's a certain grim humour in the fact that one of the eight ex-advisers benefiting from today's £1.6 million taxpayer-funded windfall is John Duffy, Ken Livingstone's director of waste... more

Ken chalked up Ł13,000 expenses in his last year

17.07.08

An investigation has been ordered into how the Mayor can claim expenses after it was revealed Ken Livingstone spent more than £13,000 in his last year at City Hall... more

Comment: This is the first stage in rescuing the LDA disaster

16.07.08

In journalism, it is important to spot not just what politicians say, but also what they don't... more

Ken Livingstone refuses to appear before LDA audit panel

15.07.08

Ken Livingstone has refused to appear in front of an audit panel investigating allegations of misspending during his time as Mayor... more

Comment: Crowded square

11.07.08

At first blush, plans for the pedestrianisation of Parliament Square, as approved by Ken Livingstone, seemed like a good way to democratise the space around the House of Commons... more