In London you should be able to buy dinner at 10pm, ice cream at midnight and a drink in a bar at 2am. If you choose to move next to a pub you shouldn’t be allowed to complain about living next to a pub and get it closed down. Simple. Now make me the new Night Tsar.

Adjusted for inflation 60p in 2013 is worth 86p today.

Further proof good things happen under a Labour government!

Excited to see Chowdhury Walk recognised by Royal Institute of British Architects with the Neave Brown award for Housing! Congratulations to Jessam Al-Jawad and all at Al-Jawad Pike and to our Hackney Council team!

Great to see progress on Hackney Council 's Climate Action Plan. Hackney Labour have delivered: 🔌up to 50 new EV charging points every month ☀️close to 1MWp extra capacity from solar panels 🚲202 cycle hangars with 1200 new spaces 🌱11 new rain gardens news.hackney.gov.uk/twenty-seven-c…

Linear tree pits forming rainwater gardens. Paris, October 2024. This is great green infrastructure practice, deterring antisocial parking, reducing the urban heat island effect through evapotranspiration and removal of hardstanding, and limiting surface water flooding.

Some "modern" views from a member of Parliament's new Modernisation Committee right there...

Il Bacio is dead, long live Il Bacio! Hoping it’s the same owners and at least one of the two continues to do the same great pizza. Very confusing though.

The pressure on the super-rich to pay their fair share is growing. Good to MPs from across parliament coming together to support a wealth tax. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

The Tories claimed a minimum wage would cause mass unemployment — it didn’t. They demonised trade unions, but unions are the combined power of millions of working people. I support the Employment Rights Bill and urge us to scrap every anti-union law since Thatcher’s government.

Brilliant piece of work by The Sentry's Atlas Project shining a light on the financial affairs of Azerbaijan's Aliyev family. Two sisters, 148 companies, a $13 billion fortune. atlas.thesentry.org/azerbaijan-ali…

Remember that we decided to destroy the world's most extensive tram network for the benefit of rich private car owners. One of the most socially and environmentally ruinous decisions this country has made since the advent of the industrial revolution.

Your income from work won't be taxed more. Your income from capital will. It's a shift in favour of labour. Why ever would a Labour government do that?

Reducing the right-to-buy discounts is an important first step in ending a policy that has decimated council housing across the country. Social housing must be at the centre of Labour's housing plans.

Crazy stat in UK Housing Review: govt spending on housing is at its highest: £30.5 billion in 2021/22 compared to £22.3 billion in 1975/76, in real terms. In the 70s, 95% was on housebuilding, now it's only 12%. The main reason for this drop? A rise in demand for housing benefit.

Four-day week ‘no threat to the economy’, says Angela Rayner independent.co.uk/business/fourd…

If the government really want to fix the NHS and public services, here are some ways to fund it: ➡️ Tax fortunes over £10m at 2% (£24bn a year) ➡️ Tax income from wealth the same as income from work (£24.2bn/yr) ➡️ Close inheritance tax loopholes (£1.4bn/yr)

UK Power Networks is registered for tax in Hong Kong, where it stashes its £300m+ annual profits for maximum tax advantage. They won't be coming back to Margate to fix anything because they don't have to do so. There's a reason they call us Treasure Island.

Amazing how reactionary and *not based on the evidence* so many views on the four day week are from those within government. ✅ Good for productivity ✅ Good for workers ✅ Saves money

🗣️ "This reliance on a small pool of wealthy donors leaves parties vulnerable to foreign interference, undue influence, and the unchecked power of special interests." @jonnarcross in @labourlist on Elon Musk and why our donation laws need urgent reform. labourlist.org/2024/12/news-m…