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Islington North Labour Party has been in a state of limbo for more than three years. The MP, Jeremy Corbyn, was suspended in October 2020 and it soon became apparent that he would not be allowed to stand as a Labour candidate again although…
Here’s a question for Sadiq: do you want to win the next mayoral election, or at least ensure that your Labour successor does so if you choose to stand down? Well, my advice would be to drop the Silvertown Tunnel plan – as soon as possible…
In terms of transport, the new post-pandemic normal is looking worse than the old normal. Without a clear strategy for how to deter people from jumping in their cars as they start travelling again, the roads will become even more congested…
It has become the biggest transport controversy of the century. Not rail nationalisation, not the £27bn roads programme, not even the £100bn on HS2, but the humble ‘low traffic neighbourhood'. Or LTNs, as they are known in the jargon that…
At times I feel like crying. I recently did when I met a railway manager at St Pancras station at 9 o’clock in the morning. Instead of the usual hustle and bustle along the walkway between the underground and Thameslink, there was a handful…
There is, perversely, something heartening about the atmosphere on the streets today. Kids are pedalling away behind their parents, while drivers slow down behind them in a considerate manner. The reduction in traffic has dramatically cut…
Jeremy Corbyn is clearly being torn apart by Brexit. The number of frontbenchers threatening to resign if he supports another referendum is probably matched by a similar number who will resign if he doesn’t. The only way out of this impasse…
The Christmas fuss about the £226m raised by hospital trusts through car parking charges led to renewed calls for the abolition of the fees. It is easy to characterise this as the heartless NHS fleecing patients but in fact this is a more…
Anna Turley’s recent LabourList article about automation rightly extols the virtues of new technology while warning of its potential to cause "mass misery as well as glittering prizes". There is a tendency to think technology is able to…
Frank Field and Margaret Hodge are both wrong. Like them, I have had my doubts about the current leadership. Just as I had them about Ed Miliband, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and, as I have been around for quite a long time, several of their…
We must get back to basics. The madness of Brexit and the chaos in the Tory party, as well as the ignominy of hosting Donald Trump, risk distracting us from the issues on which we should really be focussing. A friend of mine, James Gleave…
It is time we talked about Boris. His failure to live up to his promises about opposing Heathrow just so he can remain foreign secretary is an act of cowardice and demonstrates, as ever, his utter lack of principles. But it is only the…
