Tim McLoughlin

After this morning's fantastic Tweet from South West Trains: > We are currently not able to run trains through Feltham as there is > a fight on the platform with possible tr...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2013/08/best-google-review-ever.html

I love a bit of technology and I love a bit of politics, I especially love it when the two combine. Therefore my interest peaked today when I saw the World Development Movement's new take on one...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2013/08/food-is-too-important-to-gamble-with.html

With YouGov reporting that Labour is now 14% ahead of the Tories in its latest opinion poll it would be tempting for Labourites to get carried away thinking of victory in a 2015 general election...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/05/labour-romps-into-poll-lead.html

With reports today that Ken Livingstone has cut Boris Johnson's poll lead to just two percent, I took a look at the history of these polls in the lead up to May's election. You can see that we'...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/04/ken-cuts-boris-poll-lead-to-2.html

Yesterday I was among at Wembley for the FA Cup Semi Final between Spurs and Chelsea. As someone who remembers watching the Hillsborough disaster unfold on TV when I was nine years old, being abl...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/04/sad-day-for-football.html

My letter has been published in today's Evening Standard about what Ken Livingstone can do to win: You get to read the others too as I've not got the inclination to spend my afternoon on Ph...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-ken-needs-to-do-to-win.html

The ongoing spat between relatively wealthy Ken and very wealthy Boris about who has paid tax properly is distracting us all from what each man is proposing to do to our city. That suits a Boris...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/04/problem-with-personality-ken-v-boris.html

I thought it would be good to see how the social web commentariat is expressing itself towards the London mayoral race between incumbent Boris Johnson and previous mayor, Ken Livingstone. When we...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/04/london-mayoral-race-in-social-media.html

David Cameron has belatedly allowed the publication of a list of dinner guests to 10 Downing Street, after the former Tory treasurer Peter Cruddas was caught claiming party donors would get a din...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/03/cameron-presides-over-reactionary.html

Compassionate Conservatism has come to an end with yesterday's budget. David Cameron and George Osborne can no longer claim that they are on the side of the lest well off. We've all been given a ...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/03/ideological-tory-budget.html

Further news of Boris Johnson ignoring his fans in the London suburbs fails to have dented his popularity. At a time when the Tory Party is consolidating a lead over Labour in the opinion polls d...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/03/boris-johnson-ignores-suburbs-ken-gets.html

Ken Livingstone today announced that he will tour every London borough in his "fare deal" bus to promote his "better of with Ken" election message.  I have only got one question about this: h...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/03/better-of-with-ken-bus-to-tour-london.html

Ken Livingstone's team have today launched a snappy video highlighting the benefits of his "fare deal":

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/03/professor-pounds-lesson-on-kens-fare.html

A couple of charts on an A-level tutorial site, Economics Help shows in context the level of UK government debt over time: This shows that despite the recent increase in government debt af...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/03/uk-government-debt-in-context.html

Support for NHS the reforms proposed by the Tory and Lib Dem coalition is scant as the fantastic infographic below shows: 

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/03/nhs-reform-infographic.html

As we head towards the mid point of the current parliament no party looks like being the next victor. On current form a 2015 general election will bring results much like 2010l, where there was n...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/02/will-2015-follow-2010-and-be-losers.html

I can't understand why the Tories are so hell-bent on reforming the NHS. This unpopular change is dragging their brand through the mud when the party has traditionally struggled to get people to ...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/02/nhs-reform-re-toxifies-tory-brand.html

Reading mayor Boris Johnson's quotes in tonight's Evening Standard that "for too long our transport network suffered from waste and neglect" make sm y blood boil. How he has the nerve to make s...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/02/boris-johnson-has-some-nerve.html

The London Mayor has a good amount of power to change the city through a range of management, financial and infrastructure levers. The big three issues for Londoners often focus on crime, transp...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/02/boris-burns-your-cash-and-ignores.html

An analysis of social media conversations mentioning London mayoral candidates Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone shows the Labour man catching up on his Tory rival, much as he has done in the opi...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/02/ken-livingstone-versus-boris-johnson-in.html

This morning I picked up from Twitter rumours that Tory Cannock Chase MP Aidan Burley was seen texting and dozing while at a talk given by a Holocaust survivor. If true, that is disgusting and ...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/02/racist-tory-mp-in-more-nazi-shame.html

The first phase of Boris Johnson's mayoralty was characterised by him doing very little. He wanted the mayor to spend less and do less. He cancelled many of previous mayor Ken Livingstone's plann...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/02/boris-jouhnson-finally-works-out-what.html

I wanted to see if David Miliband's New Statesman article and widespread news coverage of it had led to much social media commentary. It clearly has, shown in the chart below detailing the numb...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/02/david-versus-ed-miliband-in-social.html

David Miliband's New Statesman article has garnered a great deal of media attention today. Everyone is either looking for, finding or creating signs of disagreement and tension between the elde...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/02/david-ed-and-media.html

Ed Miliband's lobbying for a parliamentary vote about the size of state owned RBS boss Stephen Hester's bonus led to the banker backing down and waiving his bonus. Even the BBC's Robert Peston a...

http://timmymc.blogspot.com/2012/01/ed-miliband-gets-it-right-again.html