Worryingly, official figures also show that 348,000 London households – roughly one in nine – suffer from fuel poverty.
What’s Sadiq’s solution for London’s unacceptable gender-pay gap?
Tackling inequality, underrepresentation and discrimination in the workplace is something Sadiq Khan clearly takes very seriously – his own top team contains more women members than those of his predecessors and his new TfL board is a welcome departure from the ‘pale and male’ approach taken under Boris.
How Sadiq Khan’s addiction to spin vastly oversold Amy Lamé’s “hiring”
As one those people who’ve been posing questions to City Hall on this issue in recent days, I can tell you that Khan wasn’t the only person in the building who was under-briefed.
Shining a spotlight on LGBT mental health inequality
As a society we are facing a mental health crisis. Years of under-investment in services is now catching up with us. Every week it seems there is another article in the news, another survey published, more statistics released, seeking to put a number on our anxiety and misery. As a GP, I hear the message […]
Proactive and happy to spend, Santander is the partner London’s bike hire scheme always needed
Not only does the bank pay £6.25m per year for naming rights, it also committed to providing £1m per year to be used to promote the scheme and help boost take-up.



