Brian Paddick comes right out and calls stop and search use "racist"
Lib Dem Mayoral candidate Brian Paddick said this in an interview with The Voice.
He’s starting to differentiate himself from the big two with some strong declarative statements. Which is an improvement.
See also:
The Met’s stop and search webchat digested
‘London’s trains don’t really matter,’ Lib Dems’ mayoral candidate declares
15 Mar 2012
New website, same old Standard?
Sarah Sands, acting editor of the Standard, comes up with a new way of describing Boris Johnson in a column which also excuses his failure to return to London during last summer’s riots on the grounds that he is in possession of a petite wife. The whole thing is really quite something. Toff bashing is boring, but to suggest in response that Johnson is some sort of rags to riches success story is wretch-inducing.
In other Standard news – they have a new website. It’s better than the old website. They’re also looking for a new editor, and it might not be going Sarah’s way.
Sarah Sands at the Evening Standard – Boris is better at his job than fighting elections
Evening Standard – New website
Guido Fawkes – New Standard Editor runners and riders
07 Mar 2012
26 Feb 2012
It's not just water. London is suffering a ketamine drought too
Londonlovesbusiness pose the question, in a piece which reveals that of those who admit to taking drugs at work, 10% take ketamine. At work.
21 Feb 2012
Kettling protesters - London's next successful export
John Yates, once of the Met before a spot of unpleasantness last summer, is now advising on policing in Bahrain.
Daily Telegraph – Yates of the Yard, seeking peace in Bahrain
13 Feb 2012
"You could almost eat the soil" at the Olympic park
Andrew O’Hagan visits the Olympic Park for the LRB, and discovers they have been cleaning the soil with big machines. Who knew?
03 Feb 2012
Ken Livingstone says London's supply of cocaine and women will keep bankers happy here
Cocaine and girls. Ken Livingstone explains why bankers won’t relocate from London in an interview with the Guardian’s Andrew Sparrow.
He also called for pay ratios between the highest and lowest earners, said there might be case for corporate manslaughter at TFL over the Bow roundabout cycling deaths, said he wasn’t going to buy any more of the new Routemasters*, and used the word orgasm twice. Read the interview for more.
The Guardian – Ken Livingstone: It’s policies that matter this time, not personalities
*Everyone’s calling them Routemasters except for a small number of pedants who say they aren’t to be called Routemasters. These pedants may well be right.
**Please see the comments for a fair point raised aginst the assumptions behind this intro.
30 Jan 2012
Ken's open letter to Boris ends with a cracking gag
Ken’s open letter to Boris ends with a cracking gag. This at the end of a letter which calls Mayor Johnson “complacent”, says he “reacted badly to pressure”, refers to Lynton Crosby’s “nasty dog whistle politics”, to the behaviour of Tory AMs as “nastiness”, and says that the Conservatives have “turned to the dark side”.
It’s all good fun and some of it hits home. But clean? This election is already as dirty as hell, and all the better for it.
Ken Livingstone – Letter to Boris Johnson
Snipe – An open letter to the writers of open letters
26 Jan 2012
Lana Del Rey's musical influences are pretty impressive
Pop culture’s “person people are interested in” of the moment, Lana Del Rey, tells BBC 6 Music which musicians have inspired her. It’s an impressive collection.
23 Jan 2012
Spiked Online says football fans aren't racist, they just use racist language
— Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked Online, hilariously explaining his theory that taking on racism in football is class warfare.
(H/T Peter Watts)
10 Jan 2012
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
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