Recent Posts Tagged With 'andrew gilligan'

• Meet London blogger Andrew Gilligan

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 10:21 in socks, daily telegraph, andrew gilligan

  "This isn’t a blog, Adam - it’s a column. You can tell the difference because it only appears once a week and it never goes into obsessive detail about buses." Andrew Gilligan - 2008So anyway, here's Andrew's new blog, in which he posts several t...

• Google Similar Images (Political Doubles)

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 16:54 in boris johnson, city hall, richard barnbrook, andrew gilligan

  I've been having some fun with Google's new 'similar image' search. Here's a few of my favourites:This is England This is the BNPVillage People Barking PeopleNot Andrew Gilligan Andrew GilliganRed ...

• Greenwich foot tunnel closures will be "short"

  Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 03:58 in cycling, transport, greenwich, boris johnson, andrew gilligan

  If you live in SE London you may have heard of the gathering campaign to stop the refurbishment of Greenwich and Woolwich foot tunnels.The story, feverishly promoted by several local residents, is that the tunnels will be closed for "up to 18 months"...

• How Journalism Works: City Hall Cronyism Edition

  Posted on Wednesday July 8th, 2009 at 06:23 in value, boris johnson, city hall, evening standard, andrew gilligan, jobs for the boys

  Let's just imagine I am a certain soon to be ex-journalist for the Evening Standard shall we? Okay here goes:Boris Johnson personally funneled tens of thousands of pounds to an organisation partly owned by his brother, an investigation by this blog h...

• Who's this on the side of our 'hated' bendy buses?

  Posted on Monday June 29th, 2009 at 13:18 in buses, andrew gilligan, bendy jihad

  It couldn't be could it?Gilligan, a bendy bus and Press TV. "24/7 News Truth"Subscribe in a reader ...

• Andrew Gilligan on those nasty London bloggers

  Posted on Thursday June 18th, 2009 at 05:57 in socks, evening standard, andrew gilligan

  After a few weeks hiding from helicopters (or whatever else it is that he does with his time) Andrew Gilligan has come back whining:In a long and rambling article (supposedly about Iran) he manages to squeeze in yet another swipe at those nasty Londo...

• The Evening Standard go through the looking glass

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 05:25 in evening standard, lebedev, andrew gilligan

  First the Evening Standard say sorry... Then they employ a cuddly bear...And then Andrew Gilligan writes a half-decent article.We're through the looking glass here London.Subscribe in a reader ...

• So has the Evening Standard really changed yet?

  Posted on Monday May 11th, 2009 at 14:02 in evening standard, lebedev, andrew gilligan

  I've got my free copy of the Evening Sorry now. Shall we read it together?What is included:Clunky new masthead? Check'Who cares?' story about an affair? CheckCity kids did good story? CheckCity kids did bad story? CheckTaxodus? CheckHouse price obses...

• Veronica Wadley lashes out at the Evening Sorry

  Posted on Monday May 11th, 2009 at 03:23 in evening standard, lebedev, andrew gilligan

  It's all been a bit quiet over in Sockland since the Evening Sorry campaign began, although some clues can be found in this laughable statement from leader in exile Veronica Wadley:"London is laughing at this ludicrous campaign. Saying 'Sorry' for t...

• New Evening Standard apology spotted on the Tube

  Posted on Monday May 4th, 2009 at 10:08 in evening standard, andrew gilligan

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• The Evening Standard apologises for being rubbish

  Posted on Monday May 4th, 2009 at 04:44 in boris johnson, city hall, evening standard, lebedev, andrew gilligan

  The Evening Standard will today launch an ad campaign apologising to Londoners for being such a bunch of vindictive, out of touch, snotty-nosed, misery-bags.The move follows research commissioned by the paper's new editor which shows that Londoners w...

• Andrew Gilligan comes out scratching... once again

  Posted on Monday April 27th, 2009 at 04:08 in boris johnson, ken livingstone, evening standard, andrew gilligan

  I do love a good Andrew Gilligan smear don't you? Take this one for size:"On a dozen blogs, Ken and chums blame Boris for every crack in the pavement, accept no failings of their own, and rant endlessly about how the capital is Going To The Dogs. The...

• Andrew Gilligan swings his hatchet one more time

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 05:18 in evening standard, lda, andrew gilligan

  You will by now have read this post about Andrew Gilligan's visit to the Starlight Music Academy last week.Now read this article by the man himself and tell me he's still a credible journalist:"The 6,000 square-metre building was at the centre of the...

• Starlight Academy get a visit from Andrew Gilligan

  Posted on Thursday March 26th, 2009 at 10:18 in starlight, boris johnson, evening standard, lda, andrew gilligan

  The Starlight Music Academy are a Kennington-based organisation offering music and dance training to young people in the area.As Dave Hill reported earlier this month, they had been due to lose their premises, but were given a last minute reprieve by...

• Boris Johnson in a spin over Muslim Safety Forum

  Posted on Friday March 13th, 2009 at 06:09 in value, boris johnson, ken livingstone, evening standard, andrew gilligan

  Much excitement around, over Andrew Gilligan's story about Boris's payments to the Muslim Safety Forum. According to Gilligan the Mayor was:'very concerned to discover that taxpayers' money has gone to this organisation' and Conservative Home are:...

• Andrew Gilligan waves his Sword of Truth about

  Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 04:54 in alan sugar, ken livingstone, evening standard, andrew gilligan

  Following Andrew Gilligan's non-story about Alan Sugar's non-candidacy, I went along to Labour's 'Winning Back London' event to see what it was all about.Half-expecting to see 'Kick Ken/Sign-up Sugar' banners on the walls, what I actually saw was an...

• Why was Gilligan's Alan Sugar story bumped off?

  Posted on Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 at 10:46 in alan sugar, ken livingstone, evening standard, andrew gilligan

  As Dave Hill reports elsewhere, Andrew Gilligan's Alan Sugar story never really took off in the way he might have expected. So what happened?Well apparently a broadcaster had intended to follow-up on the story but pulled out at the last minute after...

• The Evening Standard and the Boris-Watching blogs

  Posted on Friday February 27th, 2009 at 05:50 in value, heathrow, boris johnson, evening standard, andrew gilligan

  Lib Dem Voice have been crunching the numbers:"In the three weeks before the departure of editor Veronica Wadley from the Evening Standard the paper’s stories about Boris Johnson broke down as 61% positive, 27% neutral and 12% negative.""And in the...

• Has the Lebedev deal killed off the Evening Boris?

  Posted on Tuesday February 24th, 2009 at 09:40 in evening standard, lebedev, andrew gilligan

  I was on my way back from an interview this afternoon when I took the chance to buy a copy of the newly liberated Evening Standard. And do you know what, it didn't make me feel physically ill.Things I liked:Interesting front page scoop on the Met.Rep...

• Reasons to be Cheerful about the Evening Standard

  Posted on Tuesday February 3rd, 2009 at 16:54 in evening standard, lebedev, andrew gilligan

  I spent a large part of today trying to figure out how to use my webcam before spending an even larger part of the day trying to record something.You should be able to watch the fruit of my labours on a certain telly programme later in the week.In th...

• Alexander Lebedev to give firearms to journalists

  Posted on Thursday January 22nd, 2009 at 07:51 in evening standard, lebedev, andrew gilligan

  Anyone who thinks the new Evening Standard owner will be a softer touch than Paul Dacre should think again:MOSCOW, January 22 (RIA Novosti) - The Novaya Gazeta newspaper will ask Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) to issue arms licenses to its s...

• Mayor Who?

  Posted on Monday January 5th, 2009 at 05:54 in pyongyang, boris johnson, evening standard, andrew gilligan

  Following his plea for 'Royal' Boris to give a 'Queens Speech' (he kind of did) Andrew Gilligan has another suggestion for his Mayor/ his Majesty:"It strikes me that Boris (a child in the Seventies) has based his entire persona on the Tom Baker Docto...