Mayor’s Question Time at City Hall. Our main thrust today is by my colleague Dee Doocey about a big planning application in Stratford.

Mayor Livingstone is forever attacking councils who do not ensure that 50% of housing in new developments is social housing. Yet on this project … he’s accepted plans which only have 30%. A case of one rule for him, one rule for others …? He says we need to be flexible and understand where developers are coming from. Wonder if he’ll grant the same understanding to councils in future?

My own little merriment for the day is to ask him if the cat got his tongue over the huge profits made by Tubelines and Metronet in their first year (over £90million) and the bonus paid to Terry Morgan (Chief Executive of Tubelines), even though the company failed to meet 27 out of its 39 targets.

Thus far the Mayor had remained unusually silent on the matter. Historically (even hysterically) Ken is not usually silent about fat cats and obscene profits. Tempted by my question – good old Ken reappeared and he took great pleasure in letting out his spleen regarding the privatisation of the tube. I knew it was in there!