The true cost of preventing wheelchair users - and parents with buggies come to that - using London's Tube system has now been revealed: £64m.
Continue reading £64m cost of denying disabled people Tube access.
Recently in Boris Johnson Category
Apologies for being M25-centric, but concealed in London mayor Boris Johnson's plans for getting people off the capital's transport system was an item that has almost gone unnoticed.
Continue reading Boris Johnson blocks wheelchair access.
Outside Left is always pleased to hear from the London mayor's office. So when Boris Johnson's aides last week replied to a blog published in April about the dishevelled one's apparent U-turn on funding for rape crisis centres, the impression given was of another U-turn - a W-turn, no less.
Continue reading Rape crisis centres: Boris performs an illusion.
On the day that London mayor Boris Johnson called for tougher action on violence against women, he pulled the plug on funding for three rape crisis centres.
Continue reading Boris Johnson pulls funding for rape crisis centres.
Which planet is Iain Duncan Smith on? Abregado-rae, apparently.
Continue reading Iain Duncan Smith's Gado-speak and Boris @!*@ing Johnson.
Who said this in June? "I was disappointed that child
poverty rose last year. This is a sign we have to redouble our efforts."
Continue reading Boris Johnson outwits Labour on minimum wage.
By Mike McNabb
I was out of London for only one week and naively expected even Team Boris to avoid doing something to annoy me. I was only partly disappointed.
Continue reading Boris hones his unfair fares policy.
by Mike McNabb
To paraphrase Harold Wilson, a nanosecond is a long time in politics. And, for a nanosecond, I was nearly convinced that the prospect of a sandal-wearing, wishy-washy socially aware Conservative Party was for real. The softer face of "Call me Dave" nearly had me by the lentil bakes.
Continue reading Boris Johnson and his Tory chums embrace social exclusion.
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