The shock news is that Newham council has written to a private provider exploring the possibility of finding low cost housing in “areas of low demand” as part of their “resilience agenda”. Using the Localism Act they hope to discharge or outsource their duties as a local authority to private providers […]
Maintenance workers on the tube will start a 72-hour strike at 4 pm today in a dispute over pensions and benefits equality. Workers who do maintenance on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines voted four to one in favour of strike action be allowed to join the TfL Pension Scheme and receive […]
Tonight hundreds of cyclists assembled outside the offices of Addison Lee, the private hire taxi company, to protest at the actions of the company boss John Griffin. Griffin appears to be someone who enjoys controversy and recently wrote an article in the in-house magazine which claimed that (also his piece […]
Yesterday clean air campaigners came together to demand action over air pollution. The protest organised by activists from Climate Rush comes at a time of growing concern over the health effects of air pollution. Campaigners assembled just as the driving rain cleared away which was either lucky (as it allowed […]
A new poll by YouGov (pdf) puts Conservative Mayoral candidate Boris Johnson firmly in the lead, with six points over his nearest rival Labour’s Ken Livingstone. While Livingstone was ahead among those under forty and “non-white” voters Johnson is still in a strong lead with 11% of those planning to […]
When Barnet Council decided to close down Friern Barnet Library it sparked wide spread concern. A lively campaign to save the library brought together people in the community because it was one of the last free spaces in the area, and a well used one at that, used for regular […]
Earlier today the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) launched their London Assembly election campaign. Party leader Nigel Farage joined the London candidates at the Porters English Restaurant next to Covent Garden. Fresh voice for London Farage said that looking at the polls “the party is very much on the up” […]
Sunday the 8th April is Roma National day and has seen a number of marches and events internationally highlighting the problems that Roma and travellers face. These included marching on the Italian embassy. In Europe “anti-gypsy” violence and bigotry is on the rise and even in the UK events like […]
Labour’s team thought they had the super-rich Mayor Boris Johnson over a barrel on his tax affairs but it seems as if the whole thing has backfired, damaging their own candidate. For some time now the rumbling row over who pays how much taxes has threatened to overwhelm the actual […]
The Mayor’s policy of gluing pollution to the roads has, it is fair to say, met with a touch of ridicule from environmental campaigners. It has long been suspected that this policy has more to do with meeting air quality targets (and therefore avoiding being fined) as it has to […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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