Can the planned cuts to the Metropolitan Police now still go ahead?

Calls to bring in water cannon, rubber bullets and the army are thankfully being resisted by the government this morning. The riots need to be dealt with forcefully but they need to be dealt with by the police. The army would only risk making matters worse.

Will Ken regret the m-word?

Factcheck: Is London really getting safer for cyclists?

Barnet's drivers get run over by councillor Coleman

On Hogan-Howe being the goddamned Batman

Fun and games already for Bernard “Hulk” Hogan-Howe. The Standard ran a hagiographic story yesterday claiming London’s new top cop was in fact a comic book crime fighting hero:

Let's look at the UKIP's candidates for London Mayor

The UK Independence Party are having an open primary to choose their candidate for London Mayor! It’s very exciting. So, as a concerned potential UKIP voter, who should you pick?

London cycle hire stations left empty for longer

Boris Bye-law suggests a new repressive Parliament Square

Brian Paddick

City Sketch: Pramaggedon at Westfield Stratford's opening day

There were big prams and small prams, three wheelers and four wheel drives. There were green prams that looked like tricycles, and red prams that looked like cars. There were pram jams five vehicles deep that had pedestrians hemmed in like cattle, and speeding prams that left a trail of overrun toes.