With painstaking regularity, TfL seem out to alienate pretty much everyone in London by doing spurious and/or weird things. Their newest complete cock-up involved using the police to stop drivers so that they could complete a TfL survey about where they were going. Glitterditch doesn't normally agree with gruff,… read more…

In 1999, a member of the Mayor of Washington's staff had to resign after he quite correctly used the word 'niggardly' (meaning parsimonious) in a private staff meeting, sparking an Oh-my-god-that's-racist! outcry. Fast-forward just under a decade and London has voted in a guy as Mayor whose campaign was dogged… read more…