
The majority of politicians aren’t famous for their exciting lives, so it might seem completely normal that the GLA budget meetings over the past two weeks have been interesting for us Green Assembly Members (AM’s). (W...

It may have been a cold December morning outside, but in the chamber of City Hall, the temperature soon rose with the police and fire bosses under the Assembly’s spotlight! ...

I’m writing to update you on the activities of Progressive London - a new coalition launched earlier this month. You can sign up for regular updates from Progressive London here. ...

Dangerous dogs were the hot issue at last week’s Mayors Question Time but this week we London Assembly members gathered to scrutinise the London Olympic Organising Committee and are baying for blood. ...

A new initiative, the Campaign for Better Politics is being launched, which LondonSays his happy to support. One of its founder members writes for Londonsays. FED up of poor decisions being made wasting millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money every day? ...

Ken Livingstone has lauched Progressive London, a ‘coalition… to promote progressive policies in the city’. With a logo which echoes Mr Livingstone’s previous “LondON” branding, and with a hint of his independent-purple colour scheme, the organisation has a distinctly leftish tinge. So what is...

I had the privilege of chairing the first PQT of the new mayoralty. I introduced the evening by saying that the Mayor’s job was to help make London greater, our job on the Assembly was to make sure the Mayor did his job and the public’s job was to make sure we did our job. Th...

Whilst Ken Livingstone harbours ambitions to be Mayor once again his ’shadow administration’ continues to provide good copy for the media. On...

The resignation of Sir Ian Blair as Metropolitan Police Chief comes five months after Boris Johnson first expressed dissatisfaction with the direction of London’s policing. As such it shouldn’t be seen as a surprise. Ho...

As you may have noticed from our front page, we published the Transport Manifesto today. The document has been updated since the core articles were featured in this blog, with some of the ideas within timely given City Hall’s statement of intent regarding a new estuary airport. ...

London First has produced a briefing on the benefits immigration brings to London’s economy. While the debate tends to polarise between the advocates of a fairer and more flexible system, and those who see it as an emotive issue, the briefing does contain some hard facts and figures to chew on. ...

On the 15th October this year the brash, populist, deliciously unwieldy London Film Festival will roll into town, trumpeting its wares like a mountebank trying to peddle Agent Orange in the guise of Dr. Humpington’s Miracle Cure Spectacular. ...








