Recently by John Biggs

We are at a critical point in London’s political life, as the economy goes through bumpy times.

Should we dust down the history books of the ’30s and spend heavily to create jobs, support business and stimulate the economy, or should we let the fit survive, and allow the rest to fail?

John Biggs is the Labour London Assembly member for City and East

And so we are all doomed. At least if you believe the media.

In reality, it is impossible to say just what is going to happen to the economy and, just as it was unlikely that the good times would roll on forever, so it seems unlikely that all hope is now lost.

John Biggs is the Labour London Assembly member for City and East

For those of you held up on your journey to work because the DLR weekend closure had overrun, it can have been little compensation to know that soon a better and quicker service will arrive.

And I confidently predict that the arrival, in two years’ time, of air-conditioning on parts of the Underground will lead to demands that it be added to the other lines, and the DLR, too.