Author: KB

  • The Final Word on Politics, The Credit Squeeze, Iraq, Boris and Everything…

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    A wonderful letter in today’s Independent: Sir: After a decade in which the electorate have been treated like idiots; when alternative political visions became a thing of the past and voting became a choice between different sets of accountants or fund managers; when a prime minister takes us into a catastrophic war based on lies,…

  • Dear Boris…

    It looks like you’re going to win. One simple message, from a city that in the last 8 years has got greener, more tolerant, more vibrant and taken radical steps to improve public transport: Don’t Fuck This Up. Please excuse my language, but this is a place I care about deeply, which is genuinely at…

  • Cans Festival | Get Your Stencils Ready

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    “A street party of stencil art” Leake Street, London Waterloo. 3-5th May. Technorati: London

  • So What’s Worse…?

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    Your one-time minister saying some outrageous things about 9/11, or being married to a man who had his cigar smoked in the Oval Office? I don’t get it – surely Bill should be the persona non grata on the campaign trail? Technorati: Clinton | Obama

  • Don’t Piss About London: Vote Ken Or The Monkey Gets It.

    London goes to the polls this week. While the rest of the country has local council elections, London votes for its Mayor. It’s the biggest directly-elected budget-holding post in the UK: £13 billion annually to spend, employing 103,000 people and a £39billion transport investment programme over the next 10 years.. And there are some massively…

  • The New Conspirators

    There are lots of reasons why you really should go and buy Tom Sine’s new book ‘The New Conspirators‘, and none of them are that it’s got a quote from me telling you to on the back. One of them would be that I think it’s the best looking Christian book I’ve seen for ages.…