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Caught & Social: Don’t cry for me, Angelina
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt received a heroes’ welcome as they arrived at the 17th Sarajevo Film Festival, in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Jolie was there to receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award during the ceremony. The actress has strong links with the area after working with refugees there and setting her directorial debut In the Land [...]
By Luke Blackall | Notebook | Monday, 1 August 2011 at 10:47 am
Ride to work day with Absolute radio
To help promote Ride to Work Day, we went up to One Golden Sqaure to hang out with Absolute Radio and take Maggie Doyle out and about to offer live travel from the back of a bike.
By Luke Wilkins | Notebook | Friday, 24 June 2011 at 3:09 pm
Caught & Social: Boris bigs up buskers
Daily gossip from the world of celeb
By Luke Blackall | Notebook | Tuesday, 29 March 2011 at 11:13 am
London Closes for business in Shanghai
The Mayor of London was quick to lap up the publicity surrounding the recent launch of the Chinese Business Association (CBA) set up by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) with his “backing”. The Mayor promised to do all he can “to ensure this city retained its competitive edge…” yet, ironically, he is now busy closing down his office in Shanghai! This illustrates well the short-sightedness of public expenditure cuts in the UK in response to the fragile world economy, coming also on the back of the closure of its Indian offices last year.
By Murad Qureshi | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 10 March 2011 at 1:54 pm
Caught & Social: Rock legends are doing it for Stu
Daily gossip from the world of celeb
By Luke Blackall | Notebook | Thursday, 10 March 2011 at 10:57 am
Which is the worst underground line?
Boris Johnson asked for a report to be on his desk by the end of Friday after the Jubilee Line was hit by severe disruption, after what unions have said has been the worst week of delays so far this year on the Tube.
By Laura Davis | Notebook | Monday, 7 February 2011 at 12:43 pm
“That’s all Boris’s”
A snippet from Amanda Platell in the Daily Mail:
A week before the 2010 election, I was flying back to London with David Cameron. As he gazed out of the window over the city, I said: ‘That could all be yours.’ He smiled and replied: ‘No, that’s all Boris’s.’
Boris Johnson preys on Cameron’s mind more than [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 29 January 2011 at 12:50 pm
Is the Big Society the good society?
Mayor Boris Johnson recently bantered good naturedly on affordable housing with some unhappy (i.e. unelected) BNP hecklers. I was in Barking as he steered an unsatisfactory course between condemning the previous government’s “disastrous” immigration policy while putting the narrow economic case for an asylum amnesty. But it was Cllr Phil Waker, Cabinet Member for Housing at Barking & Dagenham that got my attention.
By Dave Clements | Battle of Ideas, Eagle Eye | Saturday, 23 October 2010 at 6:00 am
Why we need to continue investing in transport
Further, faster, cheaper, better – ever since the invention of the wheel, human progress can be measured by increases in the speed, affordability and ease of mobility.
By Philippe Legrain | Battle of Ideas | Friday, 8 October 2010 at 12:00 am
“Unreliable, lazy and disloyal”
Good summary of the state of undeclared war in the Conservative Party between David Cameron and Boris Johnson by Rachel Sylvester in The Times today (pay wall). The key paragraphs:
The Cameroons fear that Mr Johnson is unreliable, lazy and disloyal. “Boris is Boris” is the official line from Tory HQ, an echo of Mr Blair’s [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 17 August 2010 at 9:24 pm
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