The Madison Square Gardens (MSG) Sphere, a potentially very cool-looking new entertainment venue in Stratford has been blocked by Sadiq Khan. The 300-foot-high dome-like development, replicating a similar venue in Las Vegas, was to have been encased in a glowing ball of advertising had the Mayor not decided that would be a bit much for […]
The likely outline of Labour housing policy in government is discernible from the national policy forum final document submitted to the October party conference. It extends from aspirational platitudes and nice soundbites to specific indications of the direction a Starmer administration would take. The composite themes that appear most relevant to London are the reprioritisation […]
Somewhat under the radar, given the focus on the extended Ultra-Low Emission Zone, Sadiq Khan’s other flagship policy, providing free school meals for all state primary school children in the capital, has been in operation since September. And it has been greeted by almost universal acclaim, the London Assembly economy committee heard. “The response has […]
The new London Living Wage wage rate has been set at £13.15 an hour, a rise of 10 per cent. The voluntary pay scale, which is higher than the government’s nationwide statutory minimum and, unlike it, applies to all over-18s, will benefit 130,000 adult workers in the capital. The Living Wage Foundation, which calculates the […]
On the banks of the Waterworks River, the London 2012 Olympic Park legacy continues to take shape. Last month, University College London (UCL) formally opened its second new building within the ambitious East Bank culture and education complex. Now, the new home of the London College of Fashion, part of the University of the Arts, […]
Go on, be cynical about Sadiq Khan gallivanting up to Leeds to be seen with Tracy Brabin and three other Labour Mayors making the case for HS2 to be completed, Old Oak to Euston link and all. Dismiss it as just the Mayor of London’s part in a national Labour stunt for deepening Tory government […]
Another piece of East Bank, London’s newest culture and education district, has fallen into place. Monday saw the formal opening of University College London’s Marshgate building, completing the first phase of the creation the UCL East campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. It follows the advent last autumn of UCL East’s One Pool Street development […]
Shabna Begum was born at Mile End Hospital in 1976, just a few weeks after her parents and their three-year-old daughter Rasna moved into a small, dilapidated house on Deal Street, a few hundred yards from Brick Lane. The family thought they were renting because they paid for and received a rent book from a […]
