Tonight's Despatches will be about the less than squeaky clean office of Mayor Livingstone. It starts at 8pm on Channel4 and promises to be worth watching.
We'll be liveblogging it using this new software. If you're online at the same time you can comment on the show live as if it was a chat room built into this post. If it works without any hitches we intend to use it for future PMQs, elections etc.
You can set an email reminder for yourself in the form below. Please join us..
9.15pm: Liveblog now ended. The CoverItLive software worked very well and we look forward to using it during PMQs, elections, and other important programmes. Thanks for your comments everyone, we had over 200. The comments made by us are in black and a slightly larger font.
Tuesday morning: Boris' reaction...
"This programme is a damning indictment of a man who has been in office for too long. Londoners are now paying the price for a tired and out of date administration and a discredited Mayor. It is high time proper accountability was introduced to the office of Mayor of London and I pledge to start that on day one of my administration".
Sadly I won't be able to make it tonight as I've got a council meeting but it does sound a very exciting way of livening up debate on Conhome. Good luck.I hope it works!
Posted by: Malcolm Dunn | January 21, 2008 at 10:57
I've just brought a new TV only to find I can barely get a signal in my new bedsit. Luckily this is on analogue so I shall be watching it through a snowstorm and chatting on here.
Hope the new 'job' is going well, Malcolm.
Posted by: Comstock | January 21, 2008 at 14:10
Can you link the piece in the Observer yesterday? Hinch was sending it around folkses this am.
Posted by: Bexie | January 21, 2008 at 15:15
This I want to see. Can I watch it online, or do I actually have to buy one of those portable B&W TVs and shell out the 45 quid for a B&W TV licence?
Posted by: Adam- | January 21, 2008 at 15:51
The best help Central Office could give Boris Johnson would be to come out strongly opposed to the third runway at Heathrow. It's going to seriously affect many Londoners across London - from Camden to Richmond, not just those living near the airport - and it would be a step which would appeal to environmentalists as well as those who simply don't want the unpleasantness and dangers of a doubling of the number of flights overhead. Livingston is against it - but tactically, it's his party that is pushing it through. Cameron will really miss a trick unless he gives Johnson a really strong policy card to play.
Posted by: Anne Murphy | January 21, 2008 at 17:52
New blogging software not iPhone compatible! What's happening at Tory towers!
I'll be online for a bit, but have to head out later to help keep hackney's streets Home Secretary free ;-)
Posted by: graeme archer | January 21, 2008 at 19:59
The liveblog is live now. Your comments are welcome within the actual liveblog feed - just type in your name and message and click send. (There will be a slight delay in it going up.)
If it looks like a few of your are online we might experiment with the odd poll or something.
Posted by: Deputy Editor | January 21, 2008 at 20:02
This is fantastic (help something is breaking in to this thread) - but to really take part a laptop is needed.....
Posted by: Patsy Sergeant | January 21, 2008 at 21:12
Why do you need a laptop in particular, Patsy?
Posted by: Comstock | January 21, 2008 at 21:36