Tory silence on Living Wage speaks volumes
We all know David Cameron is an expert at ducking questions posed to him every Wednesday at PMQs.…
Mike Katz
So when exactly did Boris Johnson stop being our Mayor?
Perhaps it was around the time when the sitting MP for Uxbridge, John Randall, announced he was retiring…
What’s the answer to revitalising our High Streets? More legal loansharks, of course!
Today’s news that the Government wants to slash red tape to revitalise our high streets seems, on the…
Why ConDem plans for benefit reform will radically change our inner-city communities
By Mike Katz / @mikekatz As a councillor in central London, I didn’t need to be told why…
A bizarre proposal for devolving power
By Mike Katz / @mikekatz Eric Pickles, self-styled champion of localism (the Tories’ word of the month) has…
Suddenly Nick isn’t so bothered about Parliament
By Mike Katz / @mikekatz It’s enough to make you feel sorry for the Nationalists. Not a sentence…
Fit for the next century
By Mike Katz It’s a word that gets bandied about a tad too often, but today’s announcement on…
Kaminski, Europe and the scrutiny on Tory judgement that’s not going to go away
By Mike Katz As today’s Guardian editorial makes clear, the row over the Tories’ far-right European allies won’t…
Proposal #10: Commit to building a national high-speed rail network
By Mike Katz Here’s a startling fact. There are 3,480 miles of high-speed railway lines in mainland Europe…
Cameron must be challenged on his new European “friends”
By Mike Katz Tory leader David Cameron’s decision to split from the mainstream centre-right European People’s Party (EPP)…
