Labour accuse the government of giving London mayor Boris Johnson a £90m "bung" to pay for extra police as part of a plan to get him re-elected.

Seminar: Lessons from Ireland for the economic crisis — why we need investment not austerity, there is a progressive alternative. Tue 28 Feb 7pm, Portcullis House, London Speakers Mary Lou McDonald TD, Vice President Sinn Fein; Pat Doherty MP. FURTHER DETAILS ON FB

Ken Livingstone today launched a new campaign against rising violent crime and police cuts in London, pledging to: 1. Reverse Boris Johnson's cuts to 1,700 police officers; 2. Reinstate sergeants to all 600 Safer Neighbourhood Teams, more of which will be beefed up to a minimum of nine officers, reversing the Tory Mayor's cut to 300 sergeants in 2011. According to the Metropolitan Police...

The editor of The Times of London has apologised to a detective unmasked as a blogger after a reporter hacked his email

That’s about the heart of the story here. More than £50m of World Food Programme aid to feed the starving has ended up in the hands of a London-listed commodities trader run by billionaires, despite a pledge by the United Nations agency to buy food from “very poor farmers”. Glencore International, which buys up supplies

I love movie posters, and I especially love movie posters that I have already seen in London, translated into someone else's language, for somewhere else. So, I love this: These are all over Paris just now, as are huge pictures of Kate Beckinsale (star of Underworld – Nouvelle Ere) and a smaller one of Gary Oldman in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, known here as La Taupe (the mole). J...

Westminster Council is joint bottom of the London league for Adult Social Care, according to the 2010/11 Adult Social Care Survey. In a report to the Council's Audit and Performance Policy and Scrutiny Committee, Councillors have been told: "The 2010/11 Adult Social Care Survey (ASCS) benchmarking report shows Westminster's score (of 17.4) amongst the lowest in London. Results from the s...

At a very pleasant party in a snowy Chelsea, London on Saturday evening, I got chatting to a Greek man who has been living in the UK since 1985 and as I suppose was inevitable, the subject of Greece's financial disaster came up. He and I agreed that the policymakers and various others who deceived their country into the euro should be put into jail. But then again, one of the problems of mode...

Restoring trust in banking depends on policymakers to establish a stable and sustainable new regulatory framework and by bankers themselves to address flawed past governance and management practices, writes Simon Lewis, CEO of the London-based association for financial markets in Europe (AFME). More »

Labour calls on prime minister not to cave in to Conservative backers’ demands to defend the City of London against political attacks