On the contrary, the fucker is alive and well and moving to the Telegraph, where his expertise in not uncovering Tory expense scandals will doubtless be held in high regard in the next few years.

He did write a story on the Clement scandal, but after he resigned and apparently based mostly on what City Hall Tories were telling him, which by then was as much shit as they could shovel onto the late lamented Deputy Mayor (they were bloody cross, in fact). The man’s work had been done by Dave Hill and Adam Bienkov, who, amusingly, Gilligan despises as amateurs. I think we can safely say his hatred is fuelled at least partly by fear.

Oh silly me , his entire career was based on attacking Ken Livingstone. Now he is gone he has nothing to write about.

The medias love in with Boris and call me Dave does give an idea of what we can expect after the next election. It will be like the America media with Bush. One long free ride.

You can be guaranteed Andrew Gilligan would have been hysterical about a “culture of secrecy” if Ken Livingstone was still around.