On London: Independent news, comment and analysis
WEBOn London is run by Dave Hill, formerly the Guardian's award-winning London commentator, and written by him and an array of fellow Londoncentrics.It aims to improve the quality of coverage of London politics, development and culture.
What happened in London in 2023?
WEBDec 30, 2023 · APRIL. Anti-Londonism had struck again in the form of cuts to English National Opera’s budget and attempts to make it move out of the capital. Labour and Conservative MPs united in opposing this. The backdrop was a boom in London theatre, but a continuing struggle in other parts of the culture sector.
Elephant & Castle: Topping out time
WEB4 hours ago · The Elephant and Castle at 9:30am is rushing and tearing, revving and wheeling, banging and crashing and physically transforming at speed. A place characterised at one point in its history as south London’s answer to Piccadilly and at another as the location of some of the capital’s worst bombed-ravaged slums has seen a huge amount of regeneration endeavour during this century, some of it ...
Julie Hamill’s London: The otherworldly Edgware Road station
WEB1 day ago · Julie Hamill’s London: The otherworldly Edgware Road station. The last bit of the return journey from Scotland was by far the most exhausting, both physically and psychologically. After a long train ride back from Arbroath I headed down into King’s Cross Tube. I had been visiting family for five days for my brilliant godson’s graduation ...
Earl’s Court: Reviving the wonder
WEB1 day ago · Earl’s Court: Reviving the wonder. Newly-submitted plans for a flattened part of inner west London envisage the revival an area historically synonymous with cultural energy and many forms of innovation. It is almost ten years since people emerging from Earl’s Court Underground station on to Warwick Road, London Sw5, ceased to pause and gaze ...
On London Guide to the elections for Mayor and Assembly 2024
WEBApr 18, 2024 · The On London Guide to the elections for Mayor and Assembly 2024. 18th April 2024. It is once again time to enjoy the definitive, in-depth analysis of the coming big votes in the capital. Dave Hill. Each time there’s a democratic contest to fill the hot seats at City Hall, top elections analyst Lewis Baston and I join forces to assemble the ...
London Mayor election 2024: Can we tell who’s winning?
WEBMar 24, 2024 · Another reason for regarding the apparent strength of Khan’s position with caution is that the two 2024 polls are telling a very similar story from polls produced at the same stage of the last mayoral election campaign, the Covid-delayed contest of 2021. Five in a row, published in March and the first half of April, gave Khan leads of more 20 ...
London housing crisis ‘worst I’ve ever seen’ Assembly hears
WEBOct 20, 2023 · Housing association and council housing chiefs joined forces today to issue further grim warnings about the scale of the capital’s housing crisis, as the London Assembly’s housing committee met to consider Sadiq Khan’s progress with building affordable homes. “If there was ever a time that local authorities and housing association should be building more homes it is now.
Sadiq Khan to freeze Transport for London fares for one year
WEBJan 19, 2024 · Sadiq Khan is to freeze all Transport for London public transport fares for one year from 3 March, saying his decision will help “millions of Londoners” cope better with the cost of living crisis and “encourage people back on to our public transport network”, boosting the capital’s economy. The Mayor’s decision, widely-anticipated ...
London's relationship with the rest of the UK: An On London …
WEBMar 19, 2020 · A couple of weeks ago, when coronavirus was still a dot on foreign horizons and no one was expecting the London Mayor and Assembly elections to be postponed (let alone for a year), On London convened a discussion on the theme of the capital’s future relations with the rest of the UK, hosted by Arup at its Fitzroy Street offices.