9th September 2022 The late Queen was long a part of London life, though in her own very particular way. DAVE HILL Walking past a café near Victoria I heard a woman sitting outside it remark to her companion: “It’s
5th September 2022 Only a fraction of the small portion of the first round funding allocations announced last October has actually been paid to projects in the capital so far DAVE HILL London has received less funding from the government’s
22nd August 2022 City Hall analysis also finds that London as a whole is being hit harder by inflation than the rest of the UK DAVE HILL Low paid Londoners are to face effective losses of income in the coming
1st August 2022 They might have been knocked down but instead grew into one of the Lower Lea Valley’s regeneration success stories DAVE HILL Every component of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park tells its own, distinctive part of the larger
24th July 2022 BID chair and city economist Alexander Jan made the suggestion in a speech last week DAVE HILL The political untruth few politicians dare challenge is that London and Londoners have grown rich at the expense of the
Tuesday, 12 July 2022 It has now become a tradition for smart RBK&C to select socialist chief executives. (Quirk was one) We have to call them chief executives, not Town Clerks to justify their mega salaries and pretend they
10th July 2022 The new commissioner faces challenges ranging from basic ineptitude to advanced bad attitudes DAVE HILL Mark Rowley, as anticipated, has been named the new commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and the one thing everyone agrees about is
Monday, 4 July 2022 A £40 Non Return Valve! Months ago, Mr Nickson of Thames Water promised that flood-prone basements would be assessed to see whether a non-return valve or a FLIP would protect them. Since then ZILCH. In the meantime,
30th June 2022 The more the Conservative national administration falls apart the more fit it believes it is to run the nation’s capital DAVE HILL The more its incompetence becomes apparent, the more convinced Boris Johnson’s government is that it
Friday, 24 June 2022 Thames Water….. this Tuesday storms are forecast over London. Are you ready this time? On July 12th last year thousands of residents were flooded with sewage just because Thames Water had left the pumps unmanned so
