2 hours of school sport, or not? Is it even the right question to ask?
The political debate around the legacy of the Olympic Games over the last few days has revolved around whether every kid in every British school should have to do two…
Tag Archives: Boris Johnson
Lessons from Atheist Bus for the Gay Bus dispute
Stonewall has been running an excellent campaign on 1000 buses with the slogan “Some people are gay. Get over it!” So – surprise, surprise – some bigots decided to run…
Political versus administrative communications on Twitter: the Boris Johnson case
Yesterday current Mayor of London Boris Johnson renamed the Twitter account from @MayorofLondon to @BorisJohnson and kept more than 200000 followers. The URL listed with Twitter is now the website…
What’s Ken’s equivalent of the Congestion Charge this time?
Ken Livingstone’s first term as Mayor of London is intrinsically associated with the Congestion Charge. An unpopular idea at the start it is now impossible to imagine London without it….
Boris denies snorting particulates off London’s roads
This video of Green AM Jenny Jones having a go at Boris Johnson is worth watching, not least because of Boris losing his rag and refusing to answer the AM’s…
Time to revisit plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street
It remains one of my most-read blog entries – a quick 2006 post on why Oxford Street without buses is actually very pleasant, and I thought back to it having…
The bullshit bus? New routemaster unveiled
BBC London lunchtime news had a gleeful report of the unveiling of the new prototype Routemaster bus today, the latest stage in the New Routemaster saga I’ve blogged about here…
If a camel is a horse designed by committee then what’s this contemporary Routemaster?
At attempt to return to the past always gets the Brits drooling. Let’s get back to times when Britain ruled the waves! This was essentially the sentiment behind Boris Johnson’s…
