Fellow Londoners, it’s time to vote, vote, vote in borough elections that will tell us if Labour has risen yet higher in the capital, if Tory standing has fallen still further, and if the Greens and Liberal Democrats have made ground at the two big parties’ expense. And don’t forget the small local parties and […]
Big Media attention has focussed on Wandsworth and Westminster where this year’s local elections in the capital are concerned, but the Conservative borough that looks most likely to switch to Labour is Barnet. Never once Labour controlled – though the party have governed for two terms with Liberal Democrat support – it was on Labour’s […]
Cultural organisations across London could face closure after a government move to strip the capital of arts funding described by culture secretary Nadine Dorries as “putting our money where our mouth is” to prove that “levelling up isn’t just a catchy slogan”. New Arts Council England guidance confirms Dorries’s instruction to cut some £75 million […]
In spring last year Chander heard that an old friend had died from Covid. “It was so scary, a frightening time, it really affected me a lot. I wanted to do something,” she says. “I heard they wanted help at my GP. I got in touch and they said could you come in tomorrow.” The […]
The year about to end has seen three London infrastructure projects become objects of repeated media interest and persistent activist ire. The Nine Elms sky pool, the Seven Sisters indoor market and the Silvertown Tunnel are very different things but in each case the attention directed at them has revealed the shortcomings of protest politics, […]
The Labour-run boroughs of Haringey and Waltham Forest are among the biggest beneficiaries of government funding to help local authorities in England clear derelict and underused land in preparation for building new housing, with six other boroughs also sharing in the £58 million national pot. Haringey has been awarded £3.89 million and Waltham Forest £3,37 […]
It has all the ingredients of what the media herd calls “a great story”. But the slightest grazing of the surface of the adapted-for-journalists version of the saga of the Seven Sisters Indoor Market, known to some as the Latin Village, reveals realities far removed from the romantic tale of valiant little Latin American traders […]
Sadiq Khan has distributed the bulk of his most recent affordable housing funds from national government to London housing providers, with an emphasis on building new homes for social rent. Councils and housing associations have received shares of £3.46 billion from the Mayor, a figure which accounts for most of the £4 billion City Hall […]
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