The Square Mile and Me: M Restaurants founder Martin Williams on backpack etiquette and mandatory two hour lunches
Election 2024: Starmer and Reeves to lean on private sector to fund infrastructure plan May 27, 2024 Labour will reportedly utilise private finance to fund key national infrastructure schemes, if the party is elected into government.
Michael Gove: Face coverings will not be mandatory in shops July 12, 2020 Face coverings will not be made mandatory inside shops by the government but it is “basic good manners” to wear one, according to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove. Gove said today that he trusted “people’s good sense” to wear face coverings where necessary, without forcing people to do it by law. Pressure has begun to [...]
As long as landlords get away with bad behaviour, we’ll still have a housing crisis March 31, 2023 Many local authorities in England have never prosecuted a landlord at all for poor standards.
Gove backs new design school to challenge ‘indifferent and insipid’ town planning December 27, 2022 Michael Gove has said new housing developments are let down by “indifferent or insipid” town planning, as he calls for a new school for designing. The Levelling Up Secretary made his comments in a foreword for the conservative think tank Policy Exchange, in which he bemoaned modern architecture, saying “all too frequently in Britain the [...]
Khan gives thumbs-down to MSG Sphere venue in east London November 20, 2023 Plans to build a giant sphere-shaped music venue in Stratford have been dealt a blow after Mayor of London Sadiq Khan rejected the proposals today.
Election 2024: Cleverly says ‘no reason to believe’ cabinet ministers made bets June 23, 2024 James Cleverly has said he had “no reason to believe” any cabinet ministers placed a bet on the timing of the general election.
Labour or Conservative, all of our plans for the housing crisis are an anachronism July 31, 2023 All of our plans for the housing crisis focus on old-school analogue solutions in a digital age, writes Michael Beckerman.
Are housing targets good or bad? May 4, 2023 As a new WhatsApp controversy within the Tory party puts housebuilding targets in the limelight, Elena Siniscalco asks whether central targets are a good or bad housing policy
Levelling Up fund earmarks £90m for London boroughs – is your neighbourhood included? February 19, 2024 Over £90m will be injected into various boroughs across London to revamp tube stations and improve community spaces as part of the government’s Levelling Up fund.
A housebuilding revolution has many advantages – growth being one July 25, 2023 Go to tech conferences, and much of the buzz revolves around ‘Web 3.0,’ a catch-all term for the future of the internet that even when pushed most of its proponents struggle to define. Perhaps, then, we should be grateful that government continues to tootle along with plain-old 2.0. It’s two years or so since Rishi [...]