January 10, 2014
Channel 4 News invited Diane Abbott MP and myself to debate housing issues this week. The discussion included welfare reform and rent controls. You can see the interview by clicking on this blog, then using the link below. A Youtube version for iphone/ipad is also available under the press section above.
Channel 4 News 9 January 2014
December 30, 2013
I grew up on a council estate called Yorke Drive in Newark, Nottinghamshire. I was back there this Christmas for a walk down memory lane. I had a modest upbringing, my parents worked in restaurants. My siblings and I were all keen to get on. We had paper rounds as soon as we reached the legal age of 14 and by 16 I had a regular shop job whilst studying for my GCSEs and A levels. My sister Isabel and I […]
December 24, 2013
I was on Shaftesbury Avenue in London’s West End last Thursday night when the ceiling collapsed at The Appollo Theatre (pictured). A Transport For London Supervisor told me that over 60 people had been injured (total casualties later rose to 80), I was waiting at a bus stop and he advised me that routes were diverted. Like many, I was shocked that so many people were hurt and I wish all of those affected a speedy recovery. One of the factors in press […]
December 13, 2013
I bought at auction in early September this year and I paid a few thousand more than I wanted to. I was a bit irked, but I wanted a project, was ready to buy and decided that the brief period we’ve had since 2009 when you could get a bargain in some parts of London was well and truly over. Back in September, I bid on Lot 1 and unusually sat on the front row because I wanted to stay focus and didn’t […]
November 16, 2013
Sorry to bring doom and gloom, but my prediction that once established in Newham, selective licensing would spread like Japanese knotweed across East London is coming true. London boroughs of Islington and Hackney are both conducting reviews of the private rented sector and both held meetings this week at which the NLA were invited to present evidence on the future of the PRS in London. I attended the Islington meeting and Chief Executive Officer, Richard Lambert, attended the meeting in Hackney. Both are seriously considering […]
