Sadiq Khan
Labour were right to protect Taylor Swift
Still making headlines, it seems, is one of the more trivial scandals to have dogged the Labour government in its…
Does Keir Starmer’s atheism matter?
Good Friday, 2021, at Jesus House For All Nations church in Brent, north-west London. Face masked, head bowed, hands clasped,…
Tennis is sexy again
For 50 years, I’ve avoided wearing anything resembling formal tennis kit but in a rather lame way, I’ve been seduced…
Wes Streeting should be ashamed of his white supremacist Tory jibe
Over the past few years Wes Streeting has established himself as one of the more open-minded and reasonable members of…
Sadiq Khan’s Ulez has spectacularly backfired
What was that about Sadiq Khan’s expansion of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) supposedly helping to reduce our dependence…
Could Sadiq Khan lose London?
With Labour 20 points ahead in the national polls, a lot of Tories have already written off next month’s mayoral…
‘Weaponising Jewish people is wrong’: Sadiq Khan on anti-Semitism, Ulez and the upcoming electoral battle
Sadiq Khan on anti-Semitism, Ulez and the upcoming electoral battle
Concrete, marmite and jam: the fight against Ulez
‘We’re renegades now. We’re outlaws. Bandits.’ This was my assessment as the builder boyfriend pulled up outside the house in…
Is Ulez too fashionable to fact check?
Next Tuesday, London’s Ulez scheme will be expanded. A new network of cameras filming the traffic movements of millions of…
How builders plan to get round the Ulez charge
‘What a worry the Ulez must be for you both,’ said a friend with a nod to the pick-up truck…
Hell is the Ulez hotline
‘Only boring people get bored’ is what we were all told as children. What we were not warned about was…
Sadiq Khan should reconsider imposing Ulez on outer London
That the Conservatives retained the west London seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, albeit by a whisker, has been put…
Why legalising cannabis is safer than decriminalising it
The London mayor’s new policy on cannabis is a disaster
Who is – and isn't – welcome in Sadiq Khan's London?
Right-wing Frenchman Eric Zemmour, who is expected to run for the presidency of his country next year, has been designated persona…
Exclusive: Sadiq Khan no-platforms Eric Zemmour
As the race for the Elysée hots up, presidential candidates are busy courting voters and raising funds. And with Macron’s poll…
Who owns the language?
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is giving local residents £25,000 grants to enable them to change the names of…
Our confusing voting system has cost me £25
Some 114,201 ballots were rejected in the first round of the London mayoral election, approximately 5 per cent of the…
Sadiq Khan’s victory is good news for the Tories
Sadiq Khan is here to stay. London’s mayor has suggested he wants to stay on until 2040. But is this really good…
The London mayoralty needs to be reformed
Who does a capital city belong to? In the case of London tonight, one answer could be ‘Labour’, now that…
London's mayoral election is an embarrassment
Count Binface, a man who claims to be a 6,000-year-old ‘independent space warrior’, is running to be London mayor. In…
Our mental health is going up in smoke
As we creep back into the open, as the Covid wards empty and the mental health clinics fill up, how…
Sadiq Khan's victory could be bad news for Labour
Let’s take a look into a political crystal ball: it is Friday 7 May and a beaming Sadiq Khan is…
The problem with renaming London's streets
In Taksim Square, the busy central hub of Istanbul, a large, viril monument stands. In the centre is Mustafa Kemal…
Will there ever be another Conservative mayor of London?
Even in these strange political times, it looks very difficult for a Conservative politician to become Mayor of London. In…
