Central Line gives out three times more refunds than Victoria line

Boris makes it official, signs up for second series of Mayor of London

Remains of the day - links that, for one reason or another, we just couldn't get a blog out

Last chance to save Greenwich market

Tony Blair cancels Waterstones book signing

Blair verifies Cheney's domino effect for the Middle East

Remember the nutcases who believed that the war on Iraq was merely a pretext for a wholesale regime change in the region? Tony Blair, in his new book, says former US vice-president Dick Cheney wanted nothing less. [Cheney] thought the world had to be made anew and … it had to be done by force and with urgency. … He would have worked through the whole lot, Iraq, Syria, Iran, dealing with all their surrogates in the course of it, Hezbollah, Hamas, etc Oops.

Rough Trade ponders expanding into the world beyond London

Jellied Eels: The News in review

Livingstone advocates a SXSW-style fest for London

London’s Labour Party members will be choosing their candidate for 2012’s mayoral election during September – with the capital’s live music scene joining transport, housing and the economy as one of the themes of the debate.
Challenger and former MP Oona King – last seen losing to George Galloway in her Bethnal Green & Bow seat five years ago – has made much of her apparent youth in the contest, with the 43-year-old fondly reminiscing about nights out at the Ministry of Sound.

Vicious Cycle: Ringing the bell on the Boris Bikes

The most remarkable thing about Boris Johnson’s “cycling revolution” is that there doesn’t appear to have been one. Despite millions of pounds of investment, reams of publicity and a high-profile cycling mayor, the amount of journeys taken by bike is low and is expected to remain so.