Market forces: developer quits Tottenham Wards Corner regeneration
Corporate developers rarely withdraw from lucrative London ‘regeneration’ schemes. But Grainger has announced its withdrawal from Wards Corner in Tottenham.
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NHS GPs: ‘The doctor will see your bank account now’
‘Doctorpreneurs’ have transferred NHS contracts to run 49 London GP surgeries to an American corporation.
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Pandemic: Politicians ignored scientists’ warning in 2014
Rewind to 2014, seven years before the Coronavirus Pandemic. Duncan Selbie, then chief executive of Public Health England, warns the UK government: ‘The prospect of a flu pandemic is one of the highest risks faced by the UK.’
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London: a Real Estate City as seen from the People’s Palace
The view of London from Alexandra Palace conceals more than it reveals. A ‘havoc’ of luxury residential and office towers gives London’s skyline a jagged edge. They are the product of an unaccountable and powerful alliance between global corporate capital interests and a cadre of London’s leading politicians, including the Mayor of London. This opaque ‘local market state’ severely cramps the life chances of working Londoners on average and lower incomes, demolishing Londoners’ secure council homes – and then denying Londoners the secure and genuinely affordable homes they desperately need.
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Review: The London Encyclopaedia
Random flips entertain. The entry for Houndsditch EC3, for instance, pays homage to Stow’s observation that in this place ‘dead dogges were there laid or cast’…
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Level crossings: Still dangerous years after Elsenham
Rail level crossings still pose dangers to pedestrian users twelve years after the deaths of two young girls, Olivia Bazlinton and Charlotte Thompson. London Intelligence reports.
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