At a table in a building site meeting room sit Chan, Lita, Marta and two Marias with an interpreter and so many stories about the so-called “Latin Village” indoor market next to Seven Sisters Underground station I would love to relate, but will not for fear of causing unrest. There is already quite enough of […]
Liberal Democrat London Mayor candidate Siobhan Benita has launched her bid for City Hall with headline pledges to bring down levels of homelessness, violent crime and air pollution and a stress on making more of the “kindness” of the city that should not be “mistaken for weakness”. Speaking at the First Dates restaurant in Paternoster […]
Sadiq Khan has announced that Lewisham and Croydon will be London’s next two Boroughs of Culture, for the years 2021 and 2023 respectively. The council for each area will be awarded £1.35 million by the Mayor in order to fund a year-long programme of activities celebrating local character, people and history. In addition, the boroughs of […]
Competition for being London’s most blinkered anti-regeneration cause celebre has been hot of late, but the campaign to save the indoor market by Seven Sisters Underground station, known as the Latin Village, is in this Donkey Derby’s leading pack. Few can match it for stamina: for at least a dozen years, a quarrelsome yet self-replenishing […]
In London, Labour emerged from the general election of 12 December relatively unscathed. True, the party lost 6.4 per cent of its vote share compared with the national contest of 2017, but it still took over 48 per cent while breaking even on seats, meaning it still holds twice as many as the Conservatives and […]
To begin, your occasional reminder that London, a boo word for an array of populists, cranks and malign provocateurs, produces nearly one quarter of the UK’s economic output and generates about one third of all its taxes, £34.3 billion of which were re-distributed from the capital to Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and across most of […]
Non-Londoners may look with envy at the capital’s public transport network, but it doesn’t work for everyone. In fact, many Londoners are still “locked out” of the benefits of the network, because of poor connectivity, cost and inaccessibility. That’s the message of a new report Fair Access: Towards a Transport System for Everyone, from the […]
There are 73 parliamentary constituencies in London and we think around one third of them have at least some potential to change hands on 12 December. In the end, it might be barely a handful. But these are wild political times and, if nothing else, the contests in a large minority of London seats will […]
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