Entries from Londonist tagged with 'ken'
June 29, 2008
Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been cavorting at this festival or that: RIBA have commended the Terminal 5 building and Wembley Stadium. As if they could get away without praising Wembley…. A new report on gun crime fails to report anything that’s particularly new. The police seem to have misplaced a bailed terrorist. Pleasure cruises that are a bit too pleasurable: police raids net some dodgy substances. The BBC have admitted......
Continue Reading "Weekend Round-Up"May 20, 2008
Tired of pottering about the garden, watching daytime telly and staring folornly at City Hall, Ken Livingstone has found himself a retirement job: hosting a phone-in on London's LBC 97.3 radio. Like a Frasier for London, Ken will apply his knowledge of the City gleaned from many years in office to debate with, educate and probably rant at callers to the show. How London's cabbies (who seem to have LBC hard-wired into their radios)......
Continue Reading "Smiley, Nicey and... Ken"February 27, 2008
Ken hits back at Porsche and tells them to get on their bikes. Or at least to produce some low-emission mean machines. The Osama bin London bunch are jailed. Laid back burglar saunters into Downing Street…and escapes without a custodial sentence. Lib Dem MP for Kingston causes a bit of a rumpus. TfL Mrs. Mops congratulated for Blackwall Tunnel quick fix. Well, it’s good to give our favourite Aunt Sally a positive spin for......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"February 13, 2008
Pollution pulverised—well, not exactly, but Ken announces hefty £25 C-Charge for heaviest polluting vehicles. Fresh criticism of the “angular mass”—no, not the razor-sharp hip bones on London Fashion Week models. Rather, English Heritage have some sharp words for Doon Street Tower plan. We’re absurdly wealthy. Well, we’re not. But some people in this city apparently are. “Someone else” blamed for the £90,000 worth of Fortnum and Mason merchandise gone missing during a saleswoman’s work......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"January 9, 2008
Just in case there are any 2012 sceptics left amongst you out there (it’s gotta be good, right?), Ken is sending his Olympics PR machine out to get you. In what is actually quite an inspired little scheme, a series of three perky little igloos in jaunty, hard-to-miss shades will be hitting your high street, town square, playing fields or municipal car park real soon. All 33 boroughs in 3 months, starting off in Trafalgar......
Continue Reading "Get Set to Get Set"January 3, 2008
Liverpool Street is back to normal. (Whatever that is.) Mysterious blazing stunt truck puzzles Kent police. Electric cars are moving ahead in London. If you see what we mean. Boris claims Muslim ancestry…but Muslims still back Ken. The airport strikes are off. Will it/won’t it snow? Piccie courtesy of angleocesare’s flickr photo stream.......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra, Extra cold"