Ken Livingstone

Camilla Cavendish and Richard Brooks win Paul Foot award

Camilla Cavendish of the Times and Richard Brooks of Private Eye are the joint winners of the 2008 Paul Foot award for campaigning journalism.Cavendish won the award for her investigation into the child protection injustices...

Bendy Boris

Transport is the area where the London Mayor can exercise most influence but we have seen from Johnson (why does everyone call him Boris?) so far. Johnson is supporting the introduction of a cycle hire system in central London,...

Corfu is all about fun not funds

Don’t let the politicians and oligarchs put you off, the Ionian island of Corfu is for everyone, says Justine Picardie. Somehow, Corfu manages to find room for all of us, and in doing so it is an unexpectedly egalitarian place....

Tony Travers: The Borisocracy is settling in - and leaning centre-left

The London vision is still lacking, but Johnson has transformed the way the mayor is judged. And he has higher ambitions yet Boris Johnson has been mayor of London for six months: long enough to judge what kind of political...

'Fat Cats Club': Where the money goes

An insight into another footballing world, a million miles from Edgar Street. The pressure group Fair Pay Network is campaigning for Premier League clubs to pay 'a living wage' to their programme sellers, cleaners and catering...

Ecofriendly is good business

By Tim Holt | Contributor of The Christian Science Monitor/ October 24, 2008 edition San Francisco Who’s the greenest of them all? Is it Chicago’s Richard Daley, the cycling mayor whose City Hall roof is festooned with flowers,...

The Friday interview: US lawyer Tim O'Toole is driving the turnaround on the tube

When he was approached to run the London Underground, Tim O'Toole was offered some encouragement by a former executive: "Don't take a job like that unless you are prepared for a public and humiliating dismissal." The...

Boris Johnson battles Ken Livingstone in comic strip in Time Out magazine

is to star as an Indiana Jones-style adventurer battling villains such as his nemesis, Dr Livingstone, in a comic strip distributed with the latest edition of Time Out magazine. The tale, drawn in the retro style of the golden...

Why I'm on the outside

Membership of the Labour Party is, improbably, once more increasing. But the party must change if it is to win back most of its lost members Something very odd is happening. People have started joining the Labour Party again....

Boris Johnson calls for clubs to pay living wage as Harry bags £60,000 a week at Spurs while...

Boris Johnson has called on London's Premier League clubs to clean up their act when it comes to paying their staff. The London mayor has written to Arsenal, Chelsea, Fulham, Spurs and West Ham after a survey revealed cleaners,...