Now it has taken down an ‘interview’ with Bill de Blasio in which the former New York mayor poured scorn on the frontrunner to take the role next month, Zohran Mamdani. The article was removed when it turned out the interviewee, er, wasn’t de Blasio at all. Is there something in the water at the Times? )”Now de Blasio has hit back, posting unambiguously: “I want to be 100% clear: the story in the Times of London is entirely false and fabricated. I never spoke to that reporter and never said those things.

Source: The Times October 29, 2025 13:23 UTC