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West Central London News July 14, 2026

Lewis Baston: Greens hold one and lose one in Lambeth by-elections

There were three by-elections in London on Thursday 9 July, one of them in Camden and two of them in Lambeth. Camden’s Regent’s Park election has been given special treatment in a separate piece but the Lambeth polls had interesting results that conflict with the mild encouragement for Labour in Camden. The 7 May elections […]
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West Central London News May 21, 2026

Barnet Council has a Labour leader again. How did it happen?

Many recent London local election outcomes were close, but none were closer than Barnet’s. Labour, which had been in control since 2022, ended up with 31 seats. The Conservatives, who had previously been in control of Barnet throughout its entire history, ended up with 31 seats too. Barnet has 63 council seats in total. A […]
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West Central London News March 27, 2026

True London Podcast: Antisemitism and other hatreds in the city

I had already hoped Daniel Sugarman, deputy editor of Jewish News, would agree to be a True London podcast guest before the antisemitic hate attack on the ambulances of a Jewish charity in Golders Green. That was because I, like many others, had been impressed by a Jewish News editorial that had strongly defended Muslims following […]
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West Central London News January 12, 2026

Those new London crime stats: what they tell us, what they don’t, and what they reveal about Nigel Farage

City Hall has released with a fanfare Metropolitan Police Service statistics that tell a good news story for London and its Mayor. Following years of often lurid claims by some of his political opponents that Sir Sadiq Khan has presided over a collapse of law and order in the capital, he is now able to […]
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West Central London News December 4, 2025

Hayes, Hillingdon: High Street heroics against the odds

The nation’s shopkeepers have been having a rough time. Consumers have been moving online and the pandemic made matters worse. But in one town at least the Great British High Street is surviving – perhaps even thriving – in spite of everything. Welcome to Hayes in west London and its valiant retail frontline, where a […]
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