We put our questions to the London Assembly Conservative group leader, Andrew Boff. Congratulations on being re-elected last week. How was the election for you? Tiring (when it stopped my husband suggested I volunteer to distribute pizza leaflets as pushing messages through letterboxes had become a tough habit to kick) […]
Well, it will end on Thursday I suppose, but it feels never ending. However, it’s not that long ago that Ken Livingstone was making an appeal to keep the election out of the gutter. As it becomes clearer that no one is particularly enthusiastic about Labour’s candidate the campaign is […]
The election broadcast for the Conservative Party. Watch it and judge for yourself. What are we to make of this? Sad music, gazing wistfully out of a train window… I was wondering whether this might turn into a tampon advert. Curiously it is slightly downbeat rather than inspirational, although in […]
In the last parts of our interview with Beatrix Campbell we discussed Conservative women and then feminism in the eighties. Feminism and the eighties
On Thursday the first meaningful salvo of the 2012 Assembly elections took place as the parties put forward their proposals for the Mayor’s budget. The Conservatives had already announced that they were proposing a tax cut (£3.10/year) and there were no significant surprises there. What the budget showed is that […]
Over the next few months, as you’d expect, Big Smoke will be taking an in-depth look at the candidates, their parties and what they offer Londoners. We thought it would be useful to begin by looking at the weak points of the four parties currently elected to the Assembly. A […]
Conservatives on the London Assembly have outrageously walked out of a debate on cycle safety in order to prevent a motion being put. The motion, proposed by Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones reads; “This Assembly deeply regrets the deaths of cyclists on London’s road network and wishes to express its condolences for […]
In the first of a regular feature Big Smoke takes to the pulpit. This week Jim Jepps takes on tribalism in politics. With the Occupy Movement creating a unique fusion of camping and political philosophy (spawning the greatest political pun ever “This is the winter of our discount tents”) it’s […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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