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TfL is finally getting less wasteful but a few easy cuts justify neither the restoration of government grants nor a return to fare hikes

March 12, 2018 - Martin Hoscik

If as a result of government cuts and Sadiq’s fares freeze it now has to catch-up with the rest of the public sector and review how many layers of management it needs, and ask whether some functions really need to be carried out by separate teams with similar remits, then this is a very welcome development.

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Mayor’s housing ambitions rest on Crossrail 2

March 9, 2018 - Nelson Ogunshakin

The London Plan has highlighted the need for the capital to deliver 66,000 homes a year. None of this will be fully possible without Crossrail 2, argues Dr Nelson Ogunshakin of the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE).

Filed Under: Comment

Lord Sugar’s would-be Apprentices or London’s tourism chiefs? It wasn’t always easy to say…

March 6, 2018 - Martin Hoscik

Today’s meeting of the London Assembly’s Budget & Performance Committee will have felt eerily familiar to fans of The Apprentice, and not just because the most recent series culminated with an episode shot in the City Hall chamber

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Forget Brexit, Tory MPs should be lobbying for more public spending if they want to avoid a battering in May

January 29, 2018 - Martin Hoscik

Brexit is of course deeply unpopular in London where voters bucked the national trend to overwhelmingly vote Remain, but Tories shouldn’t kid themselves that a change in Brexit policy is going to spare their blushes come May.

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Sadiq Khan was right on stop and search in 2015 and he’s right today

January 11, 2018 - Martin Hoscik

With knife violence again dominating the London news headlines, some political opponents have sought to make hay at Mayor Sadiq Khan’s expense.

Filed Under: Comment, Featured

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