[Any attempt to try to help Bush avoid protesters would be] inconceivable, ... To create a situation in which perhaps 60,000 people remain unseen would require a shutdown of central London which is just not acceptable. |
[Big problem over next week's conference. Jack's down to do a fringe meeting with Ken Livingstone but it clashes with the launch of Wendy Alexander's book on Donald Dewar. Jack, of course, simply has to be there, because big Brown is turning up as well. Any chance Jack can get to share the same room with Gordon at the moment he grabs. So I had to ring up to persuade Livingstone to cancel to give us an excuse to call off as well.] Pity, ... I always like sharing a stage with Jack. It makes me look even smarter. |
A lot of people have had a really hard summer in July and August, it is money they can't get back again. |
a major milestone in London's recovery. |
Actually you are just like a concentration camp guard. You're just doing it because you're paid to, aren't you? |
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. |
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. |
But I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy. |
But when reporters say to me I'm only doing this because it's my job... that's the same abdication of moral responsibility at the thin end of the wedge that in its most extreme and horrific version ends up with others being prepared to stand as a concentration camp guard. |
Cycling is the fastest, cheapest, most healthy and environmentally friendly way to get around London, and more and more people are taking it up, ... The number of cyclists has doubled over the last five years, while those killed or seriously injured ... has fallen by 40%. |
Everything that we had planned for this day we knew would come worked like clockwork. |
Here is a radical and reforming commissioner making major changes to the police who has many enemies in there, who really don't want to see those changes, |
Hosting the first stage of the legendary French cycle race will raise the profile of cycling in the capital, attract visitors and promote the capital as a venue for international sporting events. |
I actually think it's what he represents they don't want to see depicted, because in that square one Nelson signifies the birth of the British empire and 100 years of global dominance, ... Nelson Mandela would signify the peaceful transition to a multiracial and multicultural world, and I would be proud to have that in London. |
I am proud to announce that London has successfully bid to host the Grand Depart of the Tour de France in July 2007. |