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
Dave Hill: Low pay and cost of living hikes pose double threat to millions of Londoners, says new report
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
London 2012 Olympic Park: How the Games media buildings became the triumphant Here East
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
Dave Hill: Does government antipathy to London mean business filling the investment gap?
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
Dave Hill: Mark Rowley needs to sort out the Met from top to bottom
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
Dave Hill: Met crisis handling smacks of further Johnson government power grab
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
Dave Hill: Grenfell justice will not be served by prejudice and populism
16th June 2022 Only the meticulous establishment of hard facts will do the job DAVE HILL The fifth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire was marked appropriately in many ways, with tender acknowledgements of wounds that will never heal
London: The Levelling Down Monitor
4th October 2021 Tracking government policies and priorities that discriminate against and exclude London and Londoners, often in the name of “levelling up” DAVE HILL In his Introduction to the Conservative Party’s 2019 general election manifesto, Boris Johnson said
Dave Hill: Can we road price all of London?
7th June 2022 Transport for London is looking seriously at the question and so will a forthcoming On London event DAVE HILL It is being played down in public but at the same time it is no secret that
Dave Hill: Elizabeth Line gets off to smooth start as central section opens to passengers
24th May 2022 The delayed project impressed first day travellers amid a celebratory atmosphere DAVE HILL London’s newest railway, the Elizabeth Line, finally opened across its full length today with no serious initial problems and amid great excitement among