The Monday morning press release from City Hall announces a new Sadiq Khan initiative for tackling knife crime. It involves the GPS tagging of potential re-offenders. But tagging is already happening in some parts of the city. So what is different about this one and how new is it? The scheme will see up to […]
A common feature of London council meetings over recent years has been the almost complete absence of local newspaper reporters. Just a couple of examples: in July 2017, the Haringey Advertiser closed (along with six other London local papers); a year later the Hampstead and Highgate Express, covering Haringey through its Broadway edition, saw its […]
Regeneration and new infrastructure projects in London should be seen as opportunities to “stitch communities back together” rather than compounding existing barriers between them, according to research involving hundreds of urban development experts from the capital’s public, private and third sectors. Overcoming London’s Barriers, a 35-page report produced by practitioners’ network Future of London, looks […]
Bad news for haters of Sadiq Khan, of whom there are many, some of them warped beyond repair: the London Mayor has reached the end of a difficult year riding high in the esteem of Londoners and has his principal challenger for the next mayoral election lined up for a first round knock out. That […]
The last five years has seen a 49 per cent increase in the number of homeless children in the capital, meaning an estimated 87,310 will wake up on Christmas morning in temporary accommodation, according to housing charity Shelter. Approaching 4,500 of these will be living in a hostel for homeless people or bed and breakfast […]
Kate Osamor resigned from Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet yesterday. Her move followed The Times reporting that she had written to the judge who presided over the recent conviction of her son Ishmael Osamor for drug offences “asking for leniency” and “stressing his remorse”. Ishmael Osamor resigned as a Haringey councillor on 30 October after his […]
Sadiq Khan’s eye-catching ban on junk food advertising across the Transport for London public transport network is a hugely significant public health intervention, perhaps the largest of its type in any city anywhere. TfL’s advertising space is the most valuable in the world, with 30 million journeys made on the network every day. The ban […]
While Lancaster Gate ward, where the other by-election of 22 November 2018 took place, is in the whirl of Central London, Bush Hill Park ward is a world away in a quiet suburban area of Enfield, London’s northernmost borough. It is in the Edmonton constituency represented by Labour’s Kate Osamor, but far from typical of […]
