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• in Business
  Amazon is Coming to London
  Amazon announce a new facility in London for the development of on demand services
  by cmimanagers / on Jul 23, 2012
• in Politics
  London Riots: Who Do We Blame?
  In the wake of the London riots, who should be blamed?
  by weenwee / on Aug 11, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “boris johnson”

 

• Martin Rowson on Tories looking over the edge of a cliff – cartoon

  
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  Conservative bigwigs and the debate about the UKs future in the EU Martin Rowson        
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• Watch as Boris defends his island airport...and battles his own umbrella

  
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  By Mark Wallace Follow  Mark on Twitter .
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• It’s not ‘one hub or none’

  
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  Plans for runway expansion and new developments are predicated on a ‘one hub or none theory’, which might not be entirely accurate, Jack Peat argues. There are between 28 to 30 flights from London to New York each day. By that, I mean 28 to 30 flights leaving from one of five London airports and arriving in ...
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• Send for Boris, Britain’s Ronald Reagan

  
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  Another day, another deranged report on the future of Heathrow. This time it is the Transport Select Committee suggesting that London’s main airport be extended to four (four!) runways, doubling the airport’s size and blighting the lives of millions of people who live in West London. Forget the various horse ...
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• Boris Johnson And Vladimir Putin: Masters Of The Publicity Shot

  
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  Our media-savvy mayor is never one to shy away from a photo opportunity, recently sitting on a horse for a few moments and acting all jocund . But he’s not the only leader to play up to the cameras. Russia’s Vladimir Putin is also notorious for putting himself in front of the lens at the choicest moments. Yet the ...
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• People with Firsts rarely come first in life – but, boy, are they pleased with themselves

  
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  Lord Winston is quite right to be wary of people with Firsts when he recruits scientists. As he says, less intelligent scientists are more likely to work in a team than super-clever loners. When I met James Watson, who discovered DNA with Francis Crick 60 years ago, he said it was crucial that the two [...]
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• Boris remains the activists favourite to succeed Cameron as Party leader

  
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  By Paul Goodman Follow Paul on Twitter . According to the latest ConservativeHome survey, the figures are: Boris Johnson: 30% Michael Gove: 17% David Davis: 16% William Hague: 16% Theresa May: 12% Philip Hammond: 6% Adam Afriyie: 2% George Osborne: 2% The Davis support is hardcore.  ...
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• New Homes Plan For Catford Stadium

  
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  The former south London dog track has been earmarked for nearly 600 new homes in a £117m redevelopment scheme. Barratt London was chosen by London mayor Boris Johnson to take on the project of turning the 4.7 hectare site into 589 properties, 113 of which would be for affordable rent and 60 for shared ownership ...
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• Boris Johnson can take on Nigel Farage

  
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  By Andrew Gimson Follow  Andrew on Twitter Boris Johnsontoday reminds us that there is nowhere more beautiful than England in May. Inhis Telegraph column he describes, in the manner of a latter-day Jerome K.Jerome, a bicycle ride from London to Oxfordshire. It is a delightful BankHoliday read. And it has ...
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• One Year On, Boris Isn’t Working

  
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  One year ago, London went to the polls and handed Boris Johnson another four years as Mayor. Then, he stood on a “Nine Point Plan for a Greater London” , a skeletal manifesto designed to counter criticism that he had no plan for his office other than to further his own political career. A year later, most ...
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• New Bus For London Cost Revealed

  
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  Transport for London has released the costs for buying the New Bus for London fleet, and despite years of soothing reassurances from the Mayor that they’ll cost less than normal hybrids, they’ll actually cost a bit more. Each bus carries an average price tag of £354,500 over its lifetime (around 14 years), or ...
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• Earls Court: wither section 34a?

  
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  The government says it still intends to create stock transfer powers desired by residents of estates threatened by redevelopment plans of flagship London Tory borough and Capco, but how powerful will those powers be? More than two years have passed since the government made known an intention to give social housing ...
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• More airport capacity

  
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  Readers living outside London and the south east of England can turn away now for the debate on whether there is enough airport capacity in the south east has taken another turn. Regular readers will be aware that CD-Traveller has pointed out before that there is spare capacity at some airports such as Gatwick and ...
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• Shaping tomorrows West End

  
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  The report of the West End commission urges an integrated place-shaping approach and new, devolved forms of London governance Eighteen months in production, the report of the West End Commission on the evolutionary needs of Londons commercial and cultural core was launched yesterday at the Prince of Wales theatre ...
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• Janet Street-Porter lambasts pushy Rachel Johnson | Media Monkey

  
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  In what Monkey can most politely describe as a forceful and highly partisan piece in Mondays Daily Mail , erstwhile Independent on Sunday editor and yoof TV queen Janet Street-Porter has a pop at the Johnson clan But its when she hones in on Boriss sister Rachel that things move up a gear. "When I ran into Rachel ...
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• Boris Johnson: fares and the future

  
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  The London mayors continuing adherence to above-inflation hikes in public transport fares partly results from weaknesses in his wider strategy The row over public transport fares that raged throughout last years mayoral election campaign enjoyed an anniversary revival last week after the credit rating agency Moodys ...
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• Manic Boris Johnson Google Hangout with Silicon Valley

  
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  As can be seen in the video above, Boris Johnson ‘met’ with heavyweight US tech investors via his first Google Hangout in London last week to learn about what the UK needs to do to accelerate the growth of its tech economy. Aside from the barmy camera angle and the panellists looking as if they are broadcasting ...
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• Ukip feel the heat

  
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  From my Morning Briefing: subscribe here The Tory counter-insurgency against Ukip reaches full throttle in this mornings papers. Firstly, theres the intervention of Ken Clarke, who appeared yesterday cheerfully franking his leaders "fruitcakes, nutters and closet racists" comments before adding that they were ...
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• Profile: Jo Johnson, the sensible sibling who might beat Boris to the job he covets most

  
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  Whether or not Jo Johnsons promotion was intended by David Cameron to annoy Jos older brother and would-be-PM Boris, the rivalry between the siblings has been simmering nicely for decades.        
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• Boris Johnsons brother Jo is a serious contender

  
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  David Camerons new head of policy may eschew the showbusiness side of politics, but could yet upstage his brother Johnson family get-togethers are not for the faint-hearted. Boris, the first-born, and his father Stanley have long since turned them into a super-competitive blood sport; two alpha males metaphorically ...
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