The results of the Riverside By-Election are out. Whilst the Lib Dems held the seat. Labour increased its vote and the Tories were hammered.

Many thanks to everyone who's helped so far but we urgently need lots of extra help to beat the Lib Dems & Tories in Southwark's Riverside Ward by-election. Polling Day is this Thursday (13th Dec)!

Michael Foot's powerful courtroom drama The Trial of Mussolini gets its world première staged reading on 18th November 2007 at 730PM Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road, London NW1  Tel. 020 7387 6617 Tube: Camden Town.  Mornington Crescent

Foot imagined Mussolini arrested and brought to London to stand trial for war crimes. An open and shut case?  But against who?  Too controversial to be published under his own name in the wartime Britain of
1943...

Mayor of London Ken Livingstone today launched his draft London housing strategy in which he calls for an increase in the number of family homes being built in London

See below a statement Ken Livingstone has issued today to coincide with the start of the Tory hustings, a shorter version of which is also available on PA.

stToday Boris Johnson copied most of Ken's ideas and basically said the opposite of what he has been saying in his newspaper since Ken was elected outlined his vision for London.
And the RMT still hold a strike for no valid reason, UNITE do not.

http://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=15278&grp=66&cat=442

According to this article in Blink, Boris Johnson is in fact a racist, Xenophobic, tory toff.(This was already known to us of course).

Andrew Boff may be the only serious challenger to Boris Johnson and a gay candidate would add an interesting element to the primary- there's over a million LGBT Londoners to reach.

Breaking news on London Tonight this evening: The Lords has amended the GLA bill to limit the Mayor of London to two terms.

Amid all the "shock" at the high number of spoilt ballots in the Scottish Elections, I can't help but ask where the Electoral Commission's concern, let alone it "full, independent review" was when precisely the same thing happened three years ago in the London Elections?