Tony Travers: Another City Hall exit will spark anxiety at Tory HQ. The London mayor needs stability,
Piffle: Boris Johnson gets into the Olympic spirit yesterday by presenting medals for a cycling race in Essex
Boris Johnson has described David Cameron's claim that Britain is a 'broken society' as 'piffle'.
In an intervention likely to dismay Tory
Boris Johnson has described David Cameron's claim that Britain has a 'broken society' as 'piffle'.
In an intervention that will dismay Tory HQ, the London mayor said Britain's success at the Olympics had proved that the youth of today was far from
I WAS in the company of Brent South MP Dawn Butler and Lee Jasper, former advisor to Ken Livingstone the other evening when Lee came up with the idea of Paul Boateng running for Mayor of London.
"Why not?" he said. "After all, Paul's got all the
On Sunday, during the closing ceremony of what will surely be called the "greatest
Olympics ever", David Beckham will roll into the Bird's Nest stadium in
Beijing on a Routemaster bus. Watched by almost a billion people, he will
join Leona Lewis and a
Alexander McCall Smith has launched a posthumous defence of Anthony Minghella, the director behind the television adaptation of his best-selling book The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
The film, which the BBC screened over the Easter weekend, turned
Linford Christie has served his punishment, so his continuing absence from British athletics is unfathomable, writes Richard
London Underground maintenance workers threatening to strike this week were accused on Monday of launching a politically motivated push to return all Tube work to the public sector.
Workers employed by Tube Lines, a private-sector company that
Harry Phibbs: Normally their hairshirt aura puts me off, but the Greens are really onto something with a fun proposal for a Thames cable
Darren Campbell remembers the day in 1999 when he heard that Linford Christie had tested positive for nandrolone. "We were in Sydney, getting ready for a training run," Campbell said in Beijing yesterday. "Linford said, 'Let's go for a walk.' I said,