If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Stratford is grim. Actually, it’s a dump. What a shame it’ll be the transport hub of the 2012 Olympics, and visitors from all over the world will have to walk its dirty, grimy streets and shelter from the rain [...]

This morning’s Metro and this evening’s Standard show how the mood of the city changed in just a couple of hours

Pages 2 and 3 from this morning’s Metro

Pages 2 and 3 from this evening’s Standard

Oxford Street was devoid of traffic at lunchtime. Usually you can barely cross without being mown down. The shops were full [...]

Working so close to Trafalgar Square, it would have been a crime not to wander down with a camera as the results of the Olympic bid were announced. These are the pixellated results of an hour spent in a crowd of 10,000.

Tony Blair, grinning on screens in Trafalgar Square after the winner is announced

Sporty Spice [...]