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If you haven’t yet discovered, explored and adored London Decides, the definitive guide to the 2026 borough elections compiled by me and ace political analyst Lewis Baston, I hope you have a jolly good excuse. Cleanse yourself of any shameful prior failings by...

I recently started a podcast called Postcards from London, half-hour conversations (or “postcards”!) with creative people who don’t live in the city but work here from time to time and love it. My most recent guest was award-winning illustrator Ji...

The predictions are of seismic change and unprecedented turmoil. The keywords: fragmentation; patchwork; loss of control. But, whisper it very quietly. This may not go nearly as badly for Labour as people are saying.

Of course, it will be quite bad. As in bad for the dozens of those individual Labour councillors – many long-time servants to the cause and dedicated comm...

The ten-minute walk from Harrow town centre to Wealdstone is rewarding for its parade of Asian shops, its opportunities for long looks down inter-war housing avenues, cars parked on hard standing spaces at the front, and for the sudden shock of seeing the monumental 1970s Harrow Civic Centre building hemmed in by builders’ hoardings, its entrance signage fading, peeling and m...

Could Haringey Council, Labour controlled since its inception in 1965 except for a short period in Conservative hands between 1968 and 1971, go Green on 7 May? At first glance it seems unlikely: in the 2022 election Labour won 50 seats, the Liberal Democrats took seven and the Greens, none.

However, predictions so far have varied from a more or less narrow Labour hold ...