Last Tuesday Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe found himself in hot water for suggesting a wider roll-out of taser ‘stun-guns’. At Thursday’s meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority, the Commissioner claimed London’s media had not fully reported his comments that the roll-out could just be to “one of our response cars” but had instead focussed on […]
The Northern Line isn’t going to Battersea anytime soon
Don’t get too excited about the Government’s ‘backing’ for extending the Northern Line to Battersea. A City Hall press release makes it clear that there a lot of hoops to jump though and a whole of conditions to be met before the project moves forward: “Support of the extension of the Northern Line to Battersea […]
Ken has found Boris’s Achilles heel but are Londoners listening?
“Come May 3rd people won’t remember what happened before Christmas…the real campaign starts in January”, so said Liberal Democrat Mayoral candidate Brian Paddick in our interview last week. He should hope that’s true – yesterday’s Comres poll gave him just 7% of first preference votes. That’s a long way short of where he needs to […]
Should ministers block Housing Benefit for Right to Buy properties?
The Government’s extension of the Right to Buy will inevitably raise concerns of further running down the social housing stock. Unless we build at least as many homes as we sell, we’ll eventually run out of homes anyone is prepared to buy. Decent Homes means the state wouldn’t quite end up being a slum landlord […]
New ideas urgently needed as Government let down Londoners over air pollution
The attempts by the Mayor of London to get Government support for reducing air pollution have failed. The London Assembly has recognised this reality and supported a motion I put forward which asks the Mayor to rewrite the document which he only finalised a year ago. Boris Johnson spent over two years drawing up his […]
