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As usual, headline reactions to the latest A-Level results, published last week, focussed on how bad it is that London schools did best. Almost 33 per cent of A-level entries were awarded A* or A grades, extending their lead over the rest of England. Other areas saw improvements too, but all the talk, yet again, […] The post London’s A-Level results: uneven outcomes, uncertain futures appeared…
The reorganisation of London local government in 1965 left a crop of redundant town halls across the capital. Hornsey Town Hall was arguably the finest of them. Completed in 1935, it was declared the best new building in London by the Royal Institute of British Architects and later described by the 20th Century Society as […] The post Charles Wright: The impressive comeback of Hornsey Town Hall…
Andy Burnham has made giving more power to regional and local government a centrepiece of his programme for national government. This has been welcomed by politicians, think tanks and business organisations alike. Particular excitement has greeted the inclusion of “fiscal devolution” in the Prime Minister’s plans. They mean that local leaders will be able to […] The post What new powers over taxes…
This might be labouring the point. But a vast and bovine media herd continues to swallow whole and passively regurgitate the arrant soufflé of a story that Westminster Council, in a frenzy of un-British, puritan fervour, intends to force alcohol consumers in Soho, Mayfair and Covent Garden to sit down while they’re doing it or […] The post Westminster: A further corrective to the confected…
It is a dark cloud hanging over our dynamic and wealth-creating economy that people, many people, continue to face food insecurity. They lack ready access to enough nutritious food for an active, healthy life, creating a toxic combination of hunger and uncertainty. That’s a definition, but what does it mean for those affected? For one […] The post Richard Derecki: Beyond food banks appeared first…
Sadiq Khan deserves credit for following the Scottish public health approach to serious youth violence with London’s own violence reduction unit (VRU). When I was Bedfordshire’s police and crime commissioner, I had oversight of that county’s VRU, putting money and political capital behind it, rather than reaching only for enforcement. From hospital-based interventions to tackling […] The post…
Arriving at SpecSavers early meant finding something to do. From the other side of Bishopsgate, Liverpool Street beckoned, with its milling travellers and safe retail. I chose instead to trip down New Street, which is, of course, terribly old, and to explore Devonshire Square, which is terribly old too, but nowadays makes a modernity pitch […] The post John Vane: Passing time in DSQ appeared first…
As a young teenager I had loads of time with nothing to do. Outside of school, the paper round, homework and housework, I spent a lot of time…staring. My imagination was never more captivated than when inside a good stare, usually with headphones on, listening to music. I stared most at the posters on my […] The post Julie Hamill: Escher at Somerset House – marvellous, if overfull appeared first…
