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...
Dave Hill: Covid ended in 2022, but London is still feeling its effects – OnLondon
Simply wanting 5 years in the past, my spouse and I went to Rome to rejoice the twenty fifth anniversary of our getting married there. We had been unaware of the earliest studies of a mysterious new virus showing in China, taking the lifetime of a 61-year-old man and making...
Dave Hill: Sir Sadiq Khan personifies everything Britain’s extreme right dislikes – OnLondon
It was yawningly predictable, however no much less illuminating for that. New 12 months honours had been bestowed on others whom they could have railed in opposition to, and on some whose nationwide significance has been far smaller. However the regular suspects exploded into their regular rage over Sadiq Khan...
Dave Hill: Don’t grow tired of caring about London’s housing emergency – OnLondon
In a chat for The London Society, Housing Ombudsman Richard Blakeway has warned of the hazard of tolerating the insupportable In principle, Britain’s Housing Ombudsman just isn't certainly one of London’s emergency companies: the workplace’s main function is to resolve disputes between social housing tenants and their landlords. In observe,...