Comments on: Mayoral skills

By: Matthew Turner

Matthew Turner — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:27:00 +0000

That’s the one. According to google for 30 years she has been the Standard’s restaurant critic.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:54:00 +0000

Fay Maschler, to save you 40p this afternoon.

By: Matthew Turner

Matthew Turner — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:52:00 +0000

No, he wasn't. I can't remember the name of their restaurant critic, but it wasn't Livingstone.

he did write a restaurant review for the ES magazine for a while. That must be what you are thinking of.

By: Laban

Laban — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:39:00 +0000

John – wasn’t Ken Livingstone the Evening Standard restaurant critic for three years ? It seems to have slipped his memory.

By: Ally

Ally — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:39:00 +0000

When I am Mayor of London (sic), I will institute a "Godwin's Law Bill", making stopping mud-slinging at the first mention of Nazis/Hitler a fundamental part of our democratic process.

I will then invoke the Parliament Act to make it law.

All problems solved :-).

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 04:58:00 +0000

It would simplify politics no end if we could apply Godwin's Law :

Godwin's Law /prov./ [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups.

By: john b

john b — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:59:00 +0000

[/slightly incoherent and badly phrased ramble]

If only Ken had said that 13 days ago, all would be fine => I nominate you for the next Mayor of London...

By: Ally

Ally — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:59:00 +0000

Is it only me who thinks that the whole thing is descending in to playground gibes, and it that it would be nice if all these people got on with running the country or writing about how the people who run the country are running the country, rather than keeping a tab on how many points they've scored off each other and writing letters to each other about it?

[/slightly incoherent and badly phrased ramble]

By: Matthew Turner

Matthew Turner — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:42:00 +0000

At the time Paul Dacre was editor of the Evening Standard. The question therefore is did he attend the party?