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• For A National Bee Action Plan

  This week Friends of the Earth (FOE) launched their Bee Cause petition calling for a National Bee Action Plan to stop the steep decline in bee numbers. As the Farmers Guardian states a Reading University report has found that the decline in Bees could have severe economic as well as […]

   

• London’s bookshops: Housmans, a radical bookseller

  Just round the corner from King’s Cross station, technically on the Camden and Islington border but in reality in the nether space that exists around large stations, lies Housmans bookshop.   Housmans was founded in 1945 as a mail order book club for pacifists. As the fire of world war […]

   

• Green Party launch London election video

  The London Green Party today launched it’s main campaign video for the London elections, a stylish black and white little number from the director Rebecca Frayn, screenwriter for the recent biopic of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. See what you think;   Commentary While not the best Green […]

   

• Video: Ken and Boris tax-squabble on LBC

  Four Mayoral candidates were on LBC this morning when a squabble over Boris and Ken’s tax affairs. Unedifying to say the least. Reports say that the pair continued to bicker after the show, including foul mouthed rants in the lift. Fuller story in the BBC, Guardian and Total Politics.

   

• Does Galloway’s Bradford victory mean there could be a “London Spring”?

  George Galloway’s out of the blue win in Bradford West on Thursday was unprecedented. For a candidate of a minuscule party, with no real connection to a constituency, to turn up a few weeks beforehand and receive more than 50% of the vote is quite remarkable, whoever achieved it, and however it […]

   

• Where are the women? Massive gender bias in Assembly candidates

  With all the candidates announced for the London Assembly it has become clear that there is a massive under representation of women standing for office (or is that over representation of men?). Of the seven Mayoral candidates just two are women, neither of whom are standing for the three largest parties. On […]

   

• Is Transport for London against the London taxi?

  Yesterday hundreds of members of the RMT London Taxi Branch took to the streets in their cabs at Stratford in a go-slow protest. The cabbies are concerned that Transport for London (TfL) and the Mayor are pursuing policies that are undermining the trade. In the run-up to the Olympics they […]

   

• No Third Runway, but……..

  John Stewart look at the prospects for and against a third runway at Heathrow.   It is now looking pretty definite that a third runway will not be built at Heathrow. In recent weeks rumours had swirled once again that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, was trying to […]

   

• A Noise Manifesto for London #LondonManifesto

  Heathrow campaigner and co-author of Why Noise MattersJohn Stewart, gives us his ten point plan on reducing noise in the capital.   Time to turn down the volume! 10 ways the Mayor can make a difference London is a very noisy city and that can have a significant impact on […]

   

• Is it time for London Independence?

  Jim Jepps explores whether it’s time to go our own way.   Last week Labour’s mayoral candidate came out in favour of independence for London. Ken Livingstone told the Evening Standard that “he will use “amazing charm and subtlety” to get New York-style independence for the capital. Mr Livingstone, 66, […]