With strings attached

This week: some words that mean the opposite of themselves, ministers fail to sort out TfL, again and we’ve just got time for a quick Tudor pub crawl.

Some cynicism

Well, here we go again. The government has agreed to give Transport for London just over £1bn in emergency funding to ensure the capital can keep functioning. This is the third such bail out the capital has needed in little over a year. More from the Guardian here.

London’s mayor Sadiq Khan has described it as a sticking plaster, which may a…