This is such a joke. Green cllrs have voted consistently against building new council homes across London for the last 4 years 🤪🤪🤪

But Zack Polanski said that Labour is in the pockets of fossil fuel donors. How wrong he is. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“We call upon all sides to implement the ceasefire, including in Lebanon.” A key and important sentence in a welcome joint statement from our government, European countries, Canada and Japan.

Watching astronauts hugging & supporting their colleague’s gesture to his late wife, whilst making history with this epic journey… Well that broke me a little. How brilliant humans can be. 🚀🔭🌖

From today, Tower Hamlets residents are paying 5% more in Council Tax. That is despite £39 million more in grant from the Labour Govt and is on top of 5% hikes in each of the past 2 years. In total, Aspire Party's Lutfur Rahman has increased CT by nearly 20% since 2022 despite promising to freeze it

Hearing Zack say this is very weird to me, from our mutual perspectives as gay men who’ve presumably both dealt with homophobic people Yes insecurity is an amplifier and agitator, but carrying his theory over to anti-Queer hatred, would he say it explains homophobia? As root cause? Cos it doesn’t

Have been a bit frustrated by some of the conversation about Labour's voter coalition. I've written about who the "Hero Voters" actually were, how we won them, and what we need to do to earn their support next time. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/who-actual...

Hospital admissions of young people for knife assault have almost halved since I set up London’s Violence Reduction Unit in 2019. London's Violence Reduction Unit director Lib Peck spoke to The Crime Agents about how prevention has played a key role in the progress we’re making:

In yesterday's Full Council, Aspire Party cllrs repeatedly claimed anyone earning less than £50,000 a year is protected from their 5% Council Tax increase. When this 'CT Relief Fund' was set up, the Mayor said 19,000 households would get it. This response shows only 143 households did so last year

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I was in the public gallery for this. Genuinely shocking! The biggest crisis facing the council & Lutfur Rahman's party voted not to allow any debate on it within the timeframe to respond. Astonishing to see the only @greenparty.org.uk cllr side with him! Morally bankrupt.

The Court of Appeal's judgement stopping Tower Hamlets from ripping out safety infrastructure is good news for Londoners. It's good for road safety & reducing danger. It's good for air quality, good for health, and good for communities across the capital. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

I have never been prouder of this gang of residents fighting to save the Bethnal Green LTN! It was one of the toughest aspects of my term as a cllr with a genuinely debilitating onslaught of vitriol from the opponents. This judgement makes it clear that Lutfur Rahman is not above the law!

Zack Polanski is not a serious politician.

70 years ago, the Thames was declared “biologically dead”. Now it’s thriving with life, with everything from harbour porpoises to wading birds. Proof that when we choose long-term action, London’s nature prospers.

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As those of us who actually live in London know, it’s a safe city. The homicide rate is now the lowest ever on record. How do we compare? 🇬🇧 London: 1.1 murder per 100k 🇫🇷 Paris: 1.6 🇺🇸 NYC: 2.8 🇧🇪 Brussels: 2.9 🇩🇪 Berlin: 3.2 🇺🇸 LA: 5.6 🇺🇸 Houston: 10.5 🇺🇸 Philadelphia: 12.3

Bit niche but… Have any East London cyclists noticed an odd sequencing of the lights at Old St? If you’re coming from Old St W to Old St E, the lights let two full runs of cars heading north, then two of east & then two full runs of pedestrians before the cyclists go. It’s a very oddly long wait.

2025: Liz Truss criticising Keir Starmer over the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah 2022: Liz Truss as Foreign Secretary trying to secure the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah

Absolute privilege to be in attendance in the Speaker’s House today, as Hilary Rodham Clinton discussed her life, Trump, peace in Northern Ireland, the rights of women, the future, and much more.

Genuinely what are people like Ed West doing with their lives? Go to Wigmore Hall, go to the movies, go to Koko, go to the Vortex Jazz Club, go see an orchestra, go see the Last Dinner Party...it ought to cure you out of having this weird, unnatural reaction to your fellow citizens.

I’d love to donate again and my B+ blood is great for the below. But sadly the rules won’t let me since I became single and on Prep…🤷

It was sad listening to the CE on Women’s Hour earlier…clearly no real desire from members or the governing body to do this and proper pride in how trans inclusive they’ve been. All the Supreme Court judgement has done is create a problem where none existed. The gov must legislate to fix this.

Couldn't agree more. Absolute nightmare for those of us who only occasionally need a car.

Today, the government have unveiled the new HIV Action Plan for England. It's a really exciting moment, with transformational potential. We're rounding up some of the highlights. Find out more. https://tht.org.uk/news/government-launches-trailblazing-scheme-reconnect-thousands-hiv-treatment

Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.

Jesus Christ, OBR...

Today is the anniversary of the repeal of Section 28 in England and Wales. Here's why the campaign to strike down that homophobic law was what first got me involved in politics 👇

Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?

What. Is. Happening.

New Yorkers faced the choice between hope and fear, and just like we've seen in London, hope won. Huge congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on his historic campaign. Tonight you get your roti and your roses - enjoy!

You'll have to ignore the buckets of anti-trans campaigning commentary in the piece, but the basic news is quite simple. The EHRC has failed to get the government to accept its anti-guidance in haste. Something is holding it up, perhaps for another a year www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

god this is properly mortifying stuff from Zarah there, GCSE-level analysis, quite hard to watch

More of this please.

Above all, the police approach in that decade culminated in the unlawful killing of 96 people and decades of cover-up.

Stunning work!

‘Yes’…says every single person who’s ever been a cllr.

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

I also particularly enjoyed his comment reconciling his apparent Sharia Law plans and yet standing in front of a Murphy’s banner. Great speech.

This is so true.

Showing mother the motherland

Fantastic event by @liamconlon.bsky.social highlighting the importance of the campaign for a Philomena’s Law. The redress scheme after the horrors of Ireland’s Mother & Baby homes shouldn’t create financial hardship for the survivors. And thanks to my lovely Siobhan McS for backing it!

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

This had made me laugh more than it really should've.

Something we all need.

Amid all the stuff about ‘dangerous London’ and ‘broken Britain’, new figures show the homicide rate in London is at a 10-year low. Killings dropped by 26% over the last year, from 78 to 58. No one under 25 was murdered during the school summer holidays.

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