Kent MP is having none of Mayor Johnson's new estuary airport

See this: the ukelele hits London. Hard

That’s James Hill covering Billie Jean on the ukelele. It’s good. He’s performing in London next week after screenings of Mighty Uke, the ukelele documentary you’ve all been waiting for. We caught up with the film’s director Tony Coleman to find out what the hell he thought he was playing at.

London agenda for Monday 21 November

You can never get away from the sprawl

I was once struck by one of the football pitch line painters reading Think and Grow Rich on a tree stump.

Occupy LSX takes over empty UBS bank building

Bow roundabout gets its cycling safety review

The blue paint suggests that you’re in a dedicated cycling lane. You’re not, you’re on a small bit of road that happens to be painted blue.

London agenda for Friday 18 November

See this tonight (birds/art/poetry edition): Ghosts of Gone Birds

Here's the live feed from Occupy Wall Street

Housing is the next political battlefield, with council tenants and private renters at risk

The provision of so-called affordable housing has stuck in the Tory craw for many years. The idea that society might provide decent accommodation such that those on low incomes are not left to the mercy of predatory private sector landlords is, of course, anathema to a government of landowners.

But the scale of the attack mounted by this government on council housing is enough to elicit gasps. As a result of the Localism Bill, which was rushed through Parliament earlier this year and which is now waiting for royal assent, security of tenure for council tenants will be scrapped – a move that MP John McDonnell this week said “ends council housing as we know it.”