Secret meeting of the London Assembly to hear from London Resilience and other key partners how London would be handled in the event of catastrophic terrorist attack.

As it was under the confidential restrictions of the Government Information whatsit – I cannot divulge what was said. Only to say, I don’t think there was anything in the briefing that couldn’t have been stated at a public meeting. I don’t like confidential meetings – in fact that is the first one I think I have been to. If there is important information present you can’t out it in the public interest – and if there isn’t, what was the point of it being held in private?

My own thrust, for what it is worth, is an interest in public information – of which there seems little available. I am reassured that everything is in hand!

There was an ‘End of Term’ dinner for London Assembly members and some key officers. It was held in London’s Living Room – a space at the top of City Hall which commands fabulous views around the whole of London virtually.

Only problem is it’s always absolutely baking hot being made of glass and not cooled by sustainable or non-sustainable means.

It was fun. Jenny Jones (Green), Samantha (talk for Britain) Heath (Labour) and I were having a ‘girly’ conversation at the reception drinks so when we were called to table we decided to make it a womens’ table. So all the other women except Angie Bray (Tory) sat at the one table. I don’t know why Angie spurned our company…

Today’s the day. Speed bumps, traffic humps, sleeping policeman – call them what you will, they’re certainly controversial! Today the London Assembly’s transport committee (which I chair) unveiled its draft report on the subject.

It’s caught the media’s interest and I’ve been busy doing interviews all day. You can see what the fuss is about yourself – there’s both a summary and the full draft available on the GLA’s website.

My PA has set up two interviews with students. I get many requests from students to come and question me on a variety of issues for their theses.

Student No 1 is just a lovely guy. He, yes he, is doing his dissertation on gender in politics and barriers to women etc. As Easter week is a relatively quiet week, I give him an hour or so and totally enjoy a ramble through the issues.

He tells me he is the only male student on his course and when he chose women and politics as his subject all his classmates (the girls) were totally supportive – but all his boy mates looked at him as if he were mad! But I reckon from listening to him that he will produce a really good piece of work. He showed a lot of understanding – not only about the subject – but on wider issues onto which we strayed.

Student No 2 was doing a PHD on branding in the Liberal Democrats. I answered his questions as best I could – but it was a far more ‘academic’ study and much more controlled. As a corporate design strategist in my earlier life for 20 years – I probably know as much as anyone about branding – which may or may not have been a good thing!

Good luck to both of them.

I went to the third meeting I had arranged with Cllr Ray Dodds (Lab) – the Haringey Council executive member for environmental services. He had cancelled the first two at a moment’s notice and was only half an hour late for this one.

I had a few local traffic issues to discuss: to beg for two pelican crossings on Priory Road which has turned into a freeway since pavement parking and bus lanes were introduced and for a speed camera on Muswell Hill itself – a nightmare gradient which some motorists see as a green light to break the speed limit by miles.

But the main reason I am there is to get ‘permission’ to capitalise on the offer made to me by the inventors of the ‘magic’ road hump to pilot them in a road in Haringey. Obviously, I want the pilot on a road of my choosing where Labour have previously refused traffic calming – but am nervous that Labour will hijack the offer for their own publicity purposes.

The ‘magic’ hump deflates and lies flat if you are driving at or below the speed limit it is set at, but remains as a hump if you exceed it. A brilliant invention – rewarding good drivers and punishing bad.

Ray goes for one in the east and one in the west of borough – but concedes graciously that if there is only to be one, I can have it. Hoorah! Now I have to see what I can do and if the offer stands.

Private meeting with the London Transport Users Committee (LTUC). They have come to chew the cud on their response to the GLA Transport Committee’s demands that they improve their accountability and performance.

They have moved from their earlier position of anger with us to producing a near reasonable response to our paper. One thing they didn’t want, but which we will stick to, is to keep responsibility for them within the Transport Committee. There’s still a way to go – but at least we are moving towards a solution.