Ken Livingstone

London cycle hire scheme opens to tenders

Transport for London is inviting bids to run a new bike hire scheme after a study released today showed the scheme is viable and could create more than 40,000 extra daily cycle trips in central London.

Boris, Mr Brownsuit and the politics of race: Boris Johnson tangles with Richard Barnbrook of BNP

During mayor's question time last week Boris Johnson was asked (pdf) by BNP assembly member Richard Barnbrook what he was doing to assist "the white, British ethnic minority group in London". The erstwhile homoerotic film-maker...

Roy Greenslade: Real reason why Murdoch won't agree to London freesheet peace

An item in Stephen Glover's Independent column today, Surely time for a truce in the stupid battle of the London freesheets, suggests a possible remedy to the war of attrition between Rupert Murdoch's News International and the...

There is nothing mean about a means test

We should not let the petty cruelties and errors of the 1930s cloud our debate today about how to reform the welfare state Forget dinosaurs and Roman orgies. Seventy years on, two words are still sabotaging the social security...

Joan Smith: My gift to the good people of France – our Olympics

I've had a brilliant idea for a new Olympic sport. Like most Olympic events, it's an elite activity, open only to a select group of contestants who have trained hard for years. Each of them – I'm thinking Tony Blair, Tessa...

Illusions of Power part 6: Labour councils and their workers

Mick O'Sullivan and Martin Thomas Local authority workers have not traditionally been as militant and organised as in major manufacturing industries. The relations between stewards and Labour councils often represent a...

'The Madam found fault with every single thing' - worker tells of 'nightmare' of working for...

A senior member of staff who worked for the wife of Paul Boateng, Britain’s High Commissioner in South Africa, has claimed he suffered more than two years of verbal abuse and unreasonable demands at the couple’s official...

GEOFFREY LEVY: Former Leftist firebrand is living it up - at your expense

She was a loony-Leftie, he a failed Labour minister. Barbados-born Mrs Boateng is the wife of our High Commissioner in South Africa, Paul Boateng, whose claim to history is that he is the first black man to serve in the...

Profile of Michael Stone, who planned to kill Ken Livingstone, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness

shot his way to international infamy in 1988 when he tried to kill Sinn Féin's leaders during a funeral at Belfast's Milltown cemetery. Television cameras captured the horror as he opened fire, killing three people and injuring...

Did OFSTED's Christine Gilbert order suppression of evidence against Crossrail?

KHOODEELAAR! is raising the question on Christine Gilbert's role today as part of our constitutional law campaign action updates. Gilbert failed and refused and neglected to answer the many questions that the campaign against...

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