It looks like the London Mayoral election could get interesting, and not just because of Richard Barnbrook's amazing background. No, what's setting it alight is the apparent readiness of the, shall we say, progressive media to have a pop at Ken Livingstone. The catalyst is Martin Bright's documentary Dispatches, which… read more…

Martin Bright's got a post on his blog about the lamentations of the Gord, and it ain't pretty reading: The trouble for Brown is that when the poison starts to eat at the government's reputation it has a retrospective effect, seeping back to corrode even past triumphs. People are beginning… read more…