Ken Livingstone - Ken Livingstone Ken Livingstone (born June 17, 1945), Mayor of London 2000 - present, was born in Lambeth, London. He was Labour MP for Brent East between 1987 and 2001. He is also known as "Red Ken", a tabloid sobriquet, and is famous for his predilection for keeping newts. Livingstone worked for eight years as a cancer research technician and also trained as a teacher. He was elected to the Lambeth borough council in 1971 and served as Vice-Chair of the Housing Committee from 1971 to 1973. (Among his fellow Lambeth councillors was John Major.) He became a Labour member of the Greater London Council in 1973 and served as Vice-Chair of Housing Mangement in 1974-1975. He also served on the Camden council from 1978 to.
Krishna Maharaj - place him 25 miles away from the murder scene at the time of the trial. The list of signatories includes Martin Bell Richard Body Peter Bottomley Virginia Bottomley Menzies Campbell Lynda Clark Ann Clwyd David Curry Lord Dholakia Simon Hughes Ken Livingstone Charles Kennedy Nicholas Lyell Dennis Skinner Teddy Taylor Several government law officers (past and present) are included, as are right-wingers and left-wingers..
John McDonnell - Labour member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington in England. He was Ken Livingstone's deputy leader of the Greater London Council, and is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group. He is a Eurosceptic, and has voted against the government many times..
June 17 - (+ 1876) 1818 - Charles Gounod, composer (+ 1893) 1832 - Sir William Crookes, physicist, chemist (+ 1919) 1881 - Tommy Burns, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion (+ 1955) 1882 - Igor Stravinsky, composer (+ 1971) 1898 - M. C. Escher, artist (+ 1972) 1900 - Martin Bormann, Nazi official (+ 1945) 1904 - Ralph Bellamy, actor (+ 1991) 1907 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (+ 1978) 1910 - Red Foley, country musician (+ 1968) 1914 - John Hersey, author (+ 1993) 1917 - Lena Horne, singer 1917 - Dean Martin, singer (+ 1995) 1923 - Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch, American football star 1943 - Newt Gingrich, American politician 1945 - Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London 1945 - Eddy Merckx, Belgian cycling champion 1946 - Barry Manilow, musician 1946 - Peter.
History of British Socialism - a Bevanite, was elected leader after Gaitskell's death. Throughout most of the rest of the twentieth century, Labour alternated in office with the Conservatives, most notably in the Wilson-Heath years(1964-1976) and until a World Recession resulted in the election in 1979 of a right-wing Conservative government headed by Margaret Thatcher. They were never however able to secure more than one full term in office. After the 1979 defeat, Jim Callaghan tried in vain to keep the left of the party (led by Tony Benn) and the right (led by Roy Jenkins) from tearing the party apart. In 1980 the party conference was dominated by factional disputes and what Callaghan regarded as bennite motions. He resigned as party leader, and was replaced by Michael Foot, a left-winger who distanced himself from Benn.
Gerry Healy - This qualitatively chaged the ability of Healy's group to carry out activity and they launched The Newsletter as a regular weekly paper in 1958. He reconstituted The Club as the Socialist Labour League in 1966, and then in 1973 as the Workers Revolutionary Party. 1974 saw the loss of a large group of members around Alan Thornett, then a leading militant in the automobile industry. Part of this group would form the Workers Socialist League. From this point the WRP lost members and became ever more isolated from the rest of the labour movement. However they remained sizeable and wealthy enough to produce a daily newspaper. Much of the monies for this printing enterprise coming from subsidies and printing contracts with various Middle Eastern regimes as internal reports later proved. They.
Greater London - Temple. With a population of 7,172,036 at the 2001 census, Greater London is administered since 2000 by the Greater London Authority, and has a directly elected Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone and a small scrutinising Assembly. The former Greater London Council, created in 1965 to replace the area's five counties and three county borough authorities, was abolished in 1986. Greater London's population rose from 1.1 million in 1801 to an estimated 8.5 million in 1939, but declined to 6.5 million in the 1980s. Wider definitions of London's metropolitan area (the London commuter belt) extend over a far larger region with up to fourteen million inhabitants, but generally include districts distinct from London proper. See also UK topics.
Greater London Authority - its functions on July 3, 2000, the authority consists of an elected Mayor and 25-member Assembly. The current Mayor is Ken Livingstone, formerly (1981-1986) leader of the Greater London Council (GLC). This current organisation to some extent replaces the GLC (1965-1986), which was abolished by Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher on grounds of alleged inefficiency, but also because elected Labour Party members were commonly in the majority, and in particular because of Livingstone's then radical populist policies and spending on social programmes. The GLA was created to improve the coordination of the various London boroughs, and the Mayor of London's role is to give London a single person to represent it. The Mayor proposes policy and the authority's budget, and makes appointments to the capital's strategic transport and development bodies. The.
Greater London Council - next election in 1967 the unpopularity of the national government produced a massive Conservative victory, 82 to 18. Desmond Plummer headed the first Conservative controlled London council in 33 years. The Conservatives retained control in 1970, although with a reduced majority and Labour gained control of the significant Inner London Education Authority (ILEA). Following a boundary review in 1969, in 1972 the electoral system was reformed, introducing single-member constituencies for the election after the 1973 contest and four year terms. Labour fought the 1973 election on a strongly socialist platform to which the voters responded by giving them a 24 seat majority (57 seats to 33 conservatives), including the election of some determined left-wingers and militants such as Ken Livingstone and David White. The Liberal Party managed to gain a number.
Frank Dobson - was appointed to the poisoned chalice of Secretary of State for Health. He resigned his ministerial position to stand as the official Labour Party candidate in the first Greater London mayoral election in 2000, but lost to the former Labour MP Ken Livingstone. Since then he has remained on the backbenches..
Diane Abbott - was a civil servant and then between 1982-1987 a journalist. In the late 1980s she became the press officer of the Greater London Council (then led by Ken Livingstone). Diane Abbott was married to David Thompson until a divorce in the mid-90s, she has one son by that marriage. She attracted criticism from all political parties in late October 2003, after revealing her decision to send her son to the City of London School, one of the top private schools in the country, after having criticised Attorney General Harriet Harman for sending her son to a selective, although state, school in Orpington, Kent, and Tony Blair for sending his son to a similar school, the Brompton Oratory (which is also officially a state school).
David Blaine - case suspended 30 feet in the air on the south bank of the River Thames close to Tower Bridge. During this period he received no food (there was however much speculation that he received glucose supplements, though medical tests offered by the stunt organisers disproved this). Another tube carried away his urine. The case, measuring 7ft by 7ft by 3ft, had a webcam installed so that viewers could observe his progress. The week prior to the stunt saw an enormous amount of publicity. Blaine stood on top of one of the capsules of the London Eye whilst the giant wheel carried out a full revolution. Later, when asked at a press conference at the Savoy Hotel, to perform a magic trick, Blaine proceeded to cut off his ear with a Swiss.
Damian Green - the Community Development Foundation. Before entering Parliament at the 1997 election, he was a journalist, then director of the European Media Forum. He stood against Ken Livingstone at the 1992 election. After entering Parliament, he was spokesman on Education and Employment from 1998, and was made Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment in 1999. In 2001 he was moved by Iain Duncan Smith to Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Skills. In 2003, Michael Howard moved him out of the newly-shrunken Shadow Cabinet, and gave him the position of Shadow Secretary of State for Transport..
1945 in music - Jule Styne "The Gypsy" w.m. Billy Reid "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" w.m. Scott Wiseman "Her Bathing Suit Never Got Wet" w. Charles Tobias m. Nat Simon "Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" w.m. Lionel Hampton & Curley Hamner "Homesick - That's All" w.m. Gordon Jenkins "The Honeydripper" w.m. Joe Liggins "I Can't Begin To Tell You" w. Mack Gordon m. James V. Monaco "I Don't Know Enough About You" w.m. Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour "I Have But One Heart" Marty Symes, J. Farrow "I Wonder" Gant, Leveen "I Wonder What Happened To Him" w.m. Noël Coward "If I Loved You" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers "I'll Buy That Dream" w. Herb Magison m. Allie Wrubel "I'm A Big Girl Now" w.m. Al Hoffmann, Milton Drake & Jerry Livingstone "I'm Gonna Love That Guy" w.m. Frances Ash "In Love In Vain" w. Leo Robin.
2003 London Blackout - (August 14) and affected about 100 times more people. For example, on August 15, The Daily Express had reported that the National Grid might not be able to cope with predicted power surges in the winter of 2004. On the day of the blackout London Mayor Ken Livingstone declared the situation a "catastrophic failure" and "the normal British disease of underinvestment and not keeping your plant up to date". The press followed this lead. The power transmission company National Grid responded that, as they had invested £3000 million in the last 10 years, the system certainly could not be described as old and decrepit. Headlines such as "Power cut cripples London" (CNN) concealed the fact that over 90% of London's population was unaffected. Later it became clear to the press that.
County Hall - story, faced in Portland Stone and in an 'Edwardian Baroque' style. Work started on its construction in 1911 and it was opened in 1933 by King George V. The later buildings (North, South and Island blocks) were completed later, the last in 1974. For sixty-four years it served as the headquarters of local government for London, until the abolition of the GLC in 1986 by Margaret Thatcher. During the last years of its life, under leader Ken Livingstone it was frequently a billboard for slogans aimed at the Palace of Westminster on the other side of the river. The building was transferred to the London Residuary Body and eventually sold off to private investors..
The Morning Star - Daily Worker until 1966. It has regular columns from current and former Labour MPs Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn and Ken Livingstone. The Morning Star is connected to and supported by the Communist Party of Britain. The editorship of the paper were part of the group that left the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1988 to found the CPB, taking the paper with them. Unlike many socialist newspapers, it is not concentrated on politics to the exclusion of everything else. It features sports pages, tv pages, and a crossword..
Socialist Organiser - 1979 Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory, initiated by the group now known as the Alliance for Workers' Liberty. Initially, contributors to the paper included Ken Livingstone, Jeremy Corbyn and Peter Tatchell, but a split over the tactic of raising taxes to pay for improved services led to many of these big names leaving. In the mid-1980s, the paper was sued by the Workers Revolutionary Party over claims they repeated that the WRP was partially funded by money from the Libyan and Iraqi governments, but the WRP was forced to abandon the action. Socialist Organiser was banned by the Labour Party in 1990, but it continued to be published until the mid-1990s, when the AWL launched their new newspaper, Action for Solidarity. This fortnightly paper is now known simply as Solidarity..
Streatham - Road was voted the "Worst Street in Britain" in a poll organised by the BBC Today programme and CABE. This largely reflected the dominance of through traffic in the High Road. On a positive note this was a catalyst for Lambeth Council and Transport for London's Steet Management to start co-operating. Investment and regeneration had begun before the poll, with local amenity group, The Streatham Society, leading a successful partnership bid for funding from central government for environmental improvements. Contemporary Streatham is a place of contrasts, with middle class families occupying houses in leafy streets that sell for in excess of £500,000 while families of asylum seekers, predominantly from Somalia and other north and east African countries are crammed into bedsits above High Road shops. Perhaps because of its good late.
Steven Norris - he published his autobiography 'Changing Trains' which commented on these accusations. Norris is known in particular for his interest in public transport. He is, or has been, Chairman of the National Cycling Strategy Board, Director General of the Road Haulage Association and President of the Motor Cycle Industry Association. Following Jeffrey Archer's withdrawal from the elections for London's mayor in 2000, Norris became the Conservative party candidate. He came in runner-up behind current mayor Ken Livingstone. In February 2003 he was elected Conservative candidate for the next mayoral elections in 2004. His platform includes promises to open the tube all night at weekends and to scrap the London Congestion Charge. On November 25 2003 the engineering group Jarvis, which tenders bids for many public transport and other public service projects, announced.
