Ken Livingstone: more Aslef links
Twenty-eight London Tory MPs this morning called on Ken Livingstone to condemn the Tube strikes by Aslef and hand back the £5000 donation he took from the union, first revealed on this blog. Ken has...
View ArticleBoris Johnson threatens to get rid of striking Tube drivers
Boris Johnson last night threatened to get rid of Tube drivers and automate the system in the face of waves of “pointless” strikes by London’s greediest unions. At his speech to the annual London...
View ArticleBoris Johnson's driverless Tube trains: the oddest argument yet
Boris Johnson’s proposal for driverless trains provoked a very curious article in yesterday’s Evening Standard from the respected transport commentator Christian Wolmar – described on the jacket of his...
View ArticleAttacking the Tube unions is a progressive act
A second leaked “confidential document” (aka press release) emerged this week about TfL’s plans for driverless Tube trains, revealing that they could begin as early as 2015. Someone is clearly testing...
View ArticleBoris Johnson: Tube, bus and Travelcard fares will go up by less
As was reported yesterday, the Chancellor, George Osborne, will this week announce extra grants from the Treasury to moderate the big transport fare increases proposed for January. About £130 million,...
View ArticleHappy Christmas Aslef, says Ken Livingstone
There was a fascinating vignette on Ken and David Mellor’s LBC show on Saturday. Mick Whelan, the general secretary of the rail union Aslef, worked on a weekend to put the case for his downtrodden Tube...
View ArticleNote to Ken and Boris: make the Tube run 24 hours
Another Monday, another morning stuffed into a Northern line carriage uncomfortably close to the passengers around me. I'd complain, but what's the point? There are some things about the London...
View ArticleBob Crow's 'mental anguish' goes on as Boris won't back down
Earlier this week I broke the news of Bob Crow’s beyond-parody legal threat against Boris Johnson. The RMT’s Mr Tough pleaded, through his lawyers, that it was “offensive,” “malicious” and “defamatory”...
View ArticleBob Crow – one of the last Leftists to believe in materialism
What made Bob Crow, who has died at the depressingly young age of 52, feel like such a blast from the past? It wasn't just the flat cap or his oh-so-London accent, the like of which is heard far less...
View ArticleWeird combinations can make for fantastic food flavours
From the Sunday Telegraph. Watson, IBM’s artificial intelligence supercomputer, has apparently been learning recipes, and its computerised cooking system has proposed blending tomato with vanilla in a...
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