The disruption of Sadiq Khan’s speech to the Fabian Society yesterday by a bunch of English nationalist Brexiteer Donald Trump fans raised a question it is difficult to answer. Which is the greater, the nastiness of those self-styled “White Pendragons” or their stupidity? Don’t let the latter blind you to the former. They brought a DIY gallows with them […]
Responding to Tony Blair’s latest intervention on Brexit, polling expert and Tufnell Park resident Keiran Pedley wrote: “Interesting that Blair and Corbyn’s roles have almost reversed. Blair going all out on a policy position regardless of public opinion, Corbyn triangulating [because] he has to. Almost as though leadership is different to being on the outside…” […]
Optimism is a customary pleasure of New Year, but London enters 2018 with grounds for apprehension. For more than three decades the capital has grown in size and power, its population soaring and its economy booming, to the benefit of the entire UK. London has become a model of a global, multicultural metropolis and a certain kind […]
The government’s proposals for funding London’s boroughs next year have been slammed as “wholly inadequate” by the body representing the city’s 33 local authorities. Though welcoming what it called a “limited recognition” of the need to invest more in local services across the capital, London Councils damned the newly-published provisional local government finance settlement for 2018/19 as […]
Government underfunding of affordable housing in London and the limits it imposes on councils’ freedom to borrow to build have produced a flourishing of what are called local housing companies among the capital’s boroughs. These are commercial enterprises formed by councils with a view to increasing the supply of housing locally and producing a profit for […]
As On London contributor Sam Stopp has rightly observed, London’s claims to greatness are undermined by its containing far too many people who struggle to make ends meet. Changing that is a major challenge for the city. But there is at least some encouragement to be taken from newly-published figures demonstrating that the chances of London children from […]
Not everyone battered Wednesday’s budget as heartily as Sadiq Khan, who denounced chancellor Philip Hammond’s effort as “the most anti-London in a generation” and described his spending plans as showing “contempt for Londoners”. But quite a few people who, unlike the Mayor, don’t have voters to please, didn’t exactly enthuse about it either. It was a budget […]
In Haringey, the ongoing and increasingly ugly branch-by-branch contests to become Labour Party candidates in May’s borough elections can almost be seen as a proxy for the election itself, as contenders backed by Haringey Momentum and activists from other political parties opposed to the current Labour administration’s plans for redeveloping council property and land through a joint […]
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