Ken Livingstone's economics adviser John Ross has been blogging on the theme of London's profile and pull as a world city. Unsurprisingly, he takes a dim view of Mayor Johnson's approach to these matters:
Few things illustrate Boris Johnson's administration's failure to understand the modern world, and therefore its incompetence, more completely than the saga of London's offices set up to represent and promote the city in India and China - the world's most rapidly growing giant new economies. It is an issue thrown into particularly graphic light by the current world financial crisis.
Read on here and see too Ross on Livingstone and tourism.
