The number of affordable homes included in the big, expensive Battersea Power Station redevelopment scheme is set to be reduced from 636 to 386, down by 250. People have been asking why Sadiq Khan, so […]
Transport is a policy area over which London Mayors have some of their greatest and most direct control, so the publication of Sadiq Khan’s draft transport strategy is a big moment in his time at City Hall. […]
Of all the scapegoats for London’s shortage of housing that people on low or average incomes can afford, none have been more convenient than wealthy foreigners. The charge sheet against them is long and familiar, ingrained […]
Even if you believed the Labour vote in London would be resilient, it was hard to imagine the party would gain four seats rather than lose four, or that tiny majorities would turn into five […]
London’s difference from the rest of the UK has been clearly demonstrated at the last two general elections. In 2010, the Conservatives made gains but not as many as they had hoped, which contributed to their […]
Big gaps in the published plans of the two largest parties have been an unhappy feature of this troubled and unconvincing election campaign, with housing policy standing out. That matters a lot in London, where high […]
The emergence of a letter from Labour candidate Joan Ryan to voters in knife-edge Enfield North acknowledging Jeremy Corbyn’s unpopularity and disparaging his election hopes is interesting for two reasons: one, the candour of its message about the […]
Yesterday, people were looking through the London details of YouGov’s shock “new model” poll for The Times, which sensationally found that the Conservatives’ might actually lose seats nationally and that we might wake on 9 […]
Elections are a time for many things. I’ve come to think of them as a time for sniggering at parties’ desperate attempts to sway voters by presenting a dubious grasp of mathematics in graph form and […]
Opponents and critics of the vast and controversial Earl’s Court project have been promoting alternative visions for the 77-acre site’s development. Students at University College London’s Bartlett School of Planning have exhibited their own masterplans for […]
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