Nearly 150,000 people in London are living in temporary accommodation, accounting for more than half the number of such homeless people in the whole of England, according to an analysis by the homelessness charity Shelter. Almost half of those temporarily housed are children and the overall number of people in the capital with no home […]
Sunday’s Jewish Labour Movement conference, held at the JW3 Jewish Community Centre on Finchley Road, was the first gathering of its kind for nearly four-and-a-half years and reflected the organisation’s relief and satisfaction that Jeremy Corbyn and elements of Corbynism it was profoundly unhappy with are in retreat. The event’s introductory message put it like […]
One year ago Londoners were still assailed by the Covid-19 pandemic, with the emergence of its fast-spreading Omicron variant. National restrictions imposed to control the virus were not lifted until several weeks later. As 2023 gets underway, the capital and the rest of the country are facing a surge in influenza cases, with the National […]
With the government reportedly needing to fill a financial hole of “at least £50 billion” with tax hikes and spending cuts amid concerns that the UK economy is growing more slowly than forecast, the country’s dependence on London’s services economy has been underlined by the latest overview from City Hall economists. The October edition of […]
“Good day for visiting the House of Commons,” one of the people from London Councils remarked on Monday as I entered the ornate and over-warm Committee Room 5. It was a wry reference to Chancellor Hunt confirming in the House of Commons earlier in the day that the calamitous “new era” mini-budget of ex-Chancellor Kwarteng […]
Concern about polio in London became official in June when the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) reported that “several closely-related viruses were found in sewage samples taken between February and May” at the Beckton sewage treatment works. It looked likely to the UKHSA at the time that “there has been some spread between closely-linked individuals […]
Last updated 28 May 2022. In terms of councils won, lost and retained, the 2022 London borough elections saw almost no overall change compared with the last such elections in 2018. It that year, Labour won 21 of the capital’s 32 local councils, the Conservatives won seven, the Liberal Democrats won three and one council, […]
Last updated 23:50. Labour have gained control of three formerly Conservative stronghold councils, while the Tories have hit back with two gains at Labour’s expense in borough elections results which also saw Labour lose the mayoralty of Tower Hamlets. Overnight, the now former Tory strongholds of Barnet, Wandsworth and, sensationally, Westminster fell to Keir Starmer’s party, […]
