Foreign Policy making in UK’s multi-ethnic society
Bagehot last week ( 22nd May 2021 edition of the Economist ) suggests that a multi-ethnic society makes for more complicated when it should make for better foreign policy making;…
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10/01/2021Birds of a feather in Central London
In recent times it has become not unusual to see seagulls and parakeets in the sky’s of Central London feeding off the goodies available. In Hyd... -
02/03/2018Ruined skyline of Little Venice
With the Brunel Building & Dudley Tower going up in Paddington Basin, it is becoming quite apparent what the visual impact is going to be in Littl... -
07/09/2017Garden Bridge – A bridge to far fo...
A full investigation is required to find out why so much public money was wasted and make sure it never happens again but while the Garden Bridge is d...
Diplomats,Londoners & outstanding congestion charge
One of the major vehicle issues in Central London neighbourhoods like Marylebone is the parking of diplomat cars and many of them not paying the congestion charge after the…
Committee “carve up” not good news for Grenfell & Cladding scandal
After looking at last week’s “carve up” of Committee positions at the London Assembly more closely, the one that causes most alarm for me is what happen to the Fire,Resilience…
Petrol stations going Green?
In the whole of Greater London we have 531 petrol stations in 2020 when we had 551 in 2017 a breakdown of which by borough can be found below. Now…
Westminster cladding victims have just one choice
As the scaffolding goes up on the cladded blocks in the City of Westminster for those caught in the cladding scandal, their face a plain choice in the forthcoming London…
From Brick lane to Shadwell
After campaigning yesterday for the London Elections on 6th of May, it was quite clear to me that the centre of the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets has moved from…
Fatal stabbings in Paddington – where are we going?
I regularly went past the flowers & candles that lie at the place Ahmed Meker was fatally stabbed in Paddington Green. May he rest in peace, his family get justice…
Americanisation of football just won’t do
Some of us stopped Murdoch getting his hands on United over 20 years ago but this americanisation of European football is one step too far. With the raging over European…
Myanmar crisis not another Syria
I have got to disagree with Simon Tisdall suggestion in the Observer that Myanmar is the new Syria as the rising violence threatens a repeat tragedy. A much better parallel…
End of the American Dream for the family
We lost our youngest uncle in Texas a month ago – Saleem Quraishi – one of over 500,000 Americans who died to coronavirus and the complete negligence of US government…
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