Kate Hudson, chair CND, on the new Mayor of London’s rejection of the anti-war movement

Nearly a month after the polls closed, it is still an extraordinary thought that London, of all places, is to be represented in the eyes of the world by a man like Boris Johnson, writes Mike Marqusee.

Jeremy Gilbert asks why, given Ken Livingstone’s political shrewdness and general effectiveness as Mayor, he was so easily displaced by the politically inexperienced Johnson.