Immigration insurance policies are massively related to London, as a result of one third of the UK’s foreign-born inhabitants lives within the capital, over 40 per cent of Londoners have been born abroad, and migrants are essential to the workings of town, each as a society of 9 million folks...
Dave Hill: Twenty-five years of London Mayors
It’s 25 years since Londoners first forged votes for a directly-elected Mayor and 25 London Meeting members. Once in a while somebody nonetheless pops as much as say that they and the Higher London Authority ought to be abolished, however few folks within the enterprise of working the capital and...
Best restaurants in Notting Hill
Greatest locations to eat and drink in Notting Hillakub – for Palestinian cookingTucked away in a quiet road behind Notting Hill Gate, Akub is Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan's first UK restaurant (after Fawda in Bethlehem). The up to date area is break up over three ranges together with an inside...
Dave Hill: Covid exposed how over-centralised UK government is
The perspective of Boris Johnson's administration to London's mayor and boroughs revealed institutional power-hugging together with prime down point-scoring As time drifts previous the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the primary lockdown of the pandemic, it has been famous how rapidly a interval generally referred to as the most...
Dave Hill: Sidelining London will dash hopes of national growth
There’s a struggle on, you may need heard. The Russians are coming. The People are going. Britain is bent on re-arming. In the meantime, the federal government’s grail of larger development retains on receding, as tariffs are threatened and the productiveness puzzle goes unsolved. The place, then, will a giant...
Dave Hill: London’s local politicians can help Britain defeat Reform
Automobiles for the bombast of Nigel Farage have by no means obtained out of first gear in Better London. However Reform UK would possibly fancy its possibilities of revving up extra assist among the many capital’s voters over the following few years than its ancestors have managed. True, the celebration...
Dave Hill: London’s Tories should go back to their roots – OnLondon
Attending the current convention held by London Conservatives, celebration chief Kemi Badenoch sat earlier than a backdrop bearing the message “London’s Conservative Renewal”. Accuracy required the phrases “doesn't exist” to have adopted, however they didn't. Perhaps they fell off the slide, however I don’t suppose so. Final Could, the Tories...
Dave Hill: How about a new New Town in London? – OnLondon
Somebody, someplace within the bowels of Whitehall may have already got drawn a purple line spherical a lump of farmland in another a part of England. But when the federal government desires to maneuver quick on getting its promised New Cities programme going, it might do worse than decide a...
Dave Hill: The ‘lawless London’ myth does nothing to reduce crime – OnLondon
On Sunday, Sir Sadiq Khan, writing within the Observer, proposed a plan for Britain to answer what he known as a far-Proper “on the march” in a number of elements of Europe and the USA, and known as for what he termed “a severe technique to halt extremists of their...
Dave Hill: Why aren’t London’s housing associations building more homes? – OnLondon
The federal government’s total housing goal for London is, allow us to recall, a heroic 81,000 new dwellings a yr for the subsequent 5 years, a determine described by Angela Rayner in her September letter to Sadiq Khan as “formidable however deliverable” and by others as little or no much...