As Liam Byrne has pointed out, we need to build more houses. It would be fair to say that the last Labour government was at best ambivalent towards house building....

There are 17,000 theatrical productions every year in the capital, ranging from one man shows to musicals, innovative new work and old favourites. London has more...

As a child growing up outside of London with a passion for theatre, I was always determined that one day I would live here. I remember well the occasional trips...

At yesterday’s London Assembly plenary I seconded a motion tabled by John Biggs AM calling for an investigation into potential blacklisting on the Crossrail project. Blacklisting...

When I was a child I wanted to be an astronaut.  Heavily influenced by watching far too much Star Trek, I dreamed of traveling into space and visiting far off worlds. Well,...

There is no more visible and tragic sign of the failure of housing policy than people sleeping rough on our streets. It is a scandal that in the twenty-first century,...

It would seem that the scales have finally fallen from Sarah Teather’s eyes.  In an interview with The Observer the Brent Central MP and former minister has denounced...

With the Mayor of London Boris Johnson calling for a London-wide education authority, the London Assembly has urged the Mayor to speak out about the recent scandal...

This week I read two pieces by gay Conservatives about equal marriage on PinkNews.co.uk, the first by LGBTory Chair Matthew Sephton, was a measured piece calling...

You might think that there’s nothing particularly special about October 7th.  There are no festivals, no public holidays, nothing of particular note at all.  But...

If you asked a group of people to name one policy of Margaret Thatcher's government chances are that many would say right to buy. It is one of the most iconic and...

One of the defining characteristics of those on the extreme right and left of politics is the inability to appreciate irony – and the reaction to Julian Assange’s...

So here we are at last. After seven years of careful planning and preparation the curtain is about to rise on what is going to be an absolutely spectacular event. Of...

Around eighteen months ago I was going through the process of renewing my tenancy agreement as my flatmates and I had decided to remain in our flat for another year. ...