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The reorganisation of London local government in 1965 left a crop of redundant town halls across the capital. Hornsey Town Hall was arguably the finest of them. Completed in 1935, it was declared the best new building in London by ...

Andy Burnham has made giving more power to regional and local government a centrepiece of his programme for national government. This has been welcomed by politicians, think tanks and business organisations alike.

Particular excitement has greeted the inclusion of “

This might be labouring the point. But a vast and bovine media herd continues to swallow whole and passively regurgitate the arrant soufflé of a story that Westminster Council, in a frenzy of un-British, puritan fervour, intends to force alcohol consumers in Soho, Mayfair and Covent Garden to sit down while they’re doing it or be run out of town. It has become a public duty t...

It is a dark cloud hanging over our dynamic and wealth-creating economy that people, many people, continue to face food insecurity. They lack ready access to enough nutritious food for an active, healthy life, creating a toxic combinati...

Sadiq Khan deserves credit for following the Scottish public health approach to serious youth violence with London’s own violence reduction unit (VRU). When I was Bedfordshire’s polic...