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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
If Labour cannot win the coming election with Gordon Brown, it certainly can't win it without him ( Here's the last hard choice for Labour: leader or country , 14 November). Imagine the bickering and infighting among his potential successors, none of whom has shown any flair or national leadership potential. What that would do to an electorate, already thoroughly disillusioned by politics and politicians,...
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KHOODEELAAR! calling for a truthful parliament (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
By © Muhammad Haque 2150 Hrs GMT Thursday 25 October 2007 Khoodeelaar! The East End of London campaign against the CrossRail hole Bill notes the unconstitutional attitude as expressed by the transport minister Tom Harris in your report. Mr Harris is showing undemocratic contempt for the principles and the practice of the sovereignty of parliament by expressing the presumption that he does nit...
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Gavin Sullivan (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
My web surfboard recently alighted upon Lashing Back The Waves of Stupid , by local Big League Blogger Mitch Berg . Berg--displaying Trafalgar Square --says the 'tribute to Lord Nelson and his epic naval victory at Trafalgar is one of the signature sites in one of the world's great cities.' [Quotation was unlinked as originally published.] Three of the plinths at Trafalgar are permanently occupied...
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KHOODEELAAR! calling for a truthful parliament (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
0958 [0940] [0710] GMT London Wednesday 18 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! That the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD was crass. We said this in February 2004 when we first put a letter of evidential rebuttal against the peddling for CRASSrail by Ken Livingstone who was then the peddler-in-chief for City of London CRASSrail scam. The EVENING STANDARD was in...
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KHOODEELAAR! calling for a truthful parliament (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
0045 GMT London Wednesday 18 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! Crossrail was CRASS. First proof it was crass was always to be found in the DENIAL of its peddlers of the EXISTING London transport network sinking into ever deeper holes of disrepair, neglect and poor standard. That has again been admitted now by the err.. Persistent peddler of Crossrail on the Ken...
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MayorWatch (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
In the 80's and 90's London's transport network was shamefully dirty and unreliable. Turning that around is probably Ken Livingstone's biggest legacy. Doing so meant a clean out of staff and the hiring and promotion of more capable brains. As tempting as it might be when revenues are falling, we tamper with that legacy at our peril.
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Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
I'm grateful to Peter Kenyon for explaining a bit more about how the Grassroots Alliance slate of left candidates for Labour's NEC is picked. Seems I was a bit premature in my post below about assuming Peter was part of it, particularly as the rather snippy exchange in the comments on his post suggest he is not getting on particularly well with everyone in the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD)....
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Liz Forgan gave a speech last night at the Theatrical Management Association 's Ambitions for the New Age conference. Here's part of what she said: I would like to end with a few words about something...which I think is both topically important and fundamental to our being able to reap the full benefit of the explosion of creative possibilities we have been talking about. That is the arms length principle...
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Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The news faithfully reported by the BBC that "Gordon Brown has promised to "tighten" the UK's immigration rules by reducing the number of professions which can recruit from outside Europe." misses the problem by a mile. I, and I believe most others, have few problems with French Quants, Indian Systems Analysts or German T&M people working here and paying taxes. The problem,...
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Paul Owen (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Hugo Chavez, the buffoonish president of Venezuela, has a few problems at the moment. His country is mired in recession like many parts of the world, yet inflation is running at 30% - it is the very definition of stagflation. The country is suffering regular power cuts due to shortages and water is rationed - Chavez recently used one of his regular television shows to instruct a grateful nation on...
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Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
I'm grateful to some fellow Labour bloggers for these endorsements of my NEC candidacy (somewhat more eloquently argued than my own self-promotion), which I announced here last week: Matthew Cain Hopi Sen Dave Cole There's a Facebook group you can join if you are supporting me. Search for "Luke Akehurst for Labour's NEC" on Facebook to find it. Meanwhile the Grassroots Alliance - the left...
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James Cleverly (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
On Monday of this week I attended the People's Question Time in Brixton, you can read my twitter updates here . PQTs are usually energetic and robust but Monday's event was notable by how much shouting and heckling there was from the audience. I was particularly surprised and dissapointed when someone threw something at the stage, nearly hitting Val Shawcross AM who was hosting the event. While some...
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Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Boris Johnson was reunited with his old adversary Ken Livingstone at the Standard's Influentials party — and promptly offered him a job
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Though Cowards Flinch (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
As I explored in step 1 of this five point organisational action plan for the Labour left, the ‘New (Urban) Left’ of the early 1980s displayed admirable levels of commitment and organisation to gain control of a significant number of Constituency Labour Parties and of council groups. A while ago, when Ken Livingstone was beaten by Johnson in [...]
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DCist (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Photo by Brian Knight Photography Like, literally. Our sister site Londonist brings news of London Mayor Boris Johnson, who on Tuesday night jumped off of his bike to save a woman from an aggressive gang of teen girls. The victim of the attack, who actually voted for opponent Ken Livingstone in last year's mayoral election, called Johnson "my knight on a shining bicycle" in comments to The...
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news rage uk | 05/05/2008
I just wanted to wish Boris congratulations on his victory for Mayor of London. I hope he can turn his energy and excitement into something really positive as far as London is concerned. After years of near hatred, I have to say that I was also a little sad to see Ken Livingstone go (but not a lot). He actually seemed to take it quite well. I had visions of him attacking Gordon Brown, the labour party...
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