OnLondon

Launched on February 1, 2017, by the award-winning former Guardian London commentator Dave Hill, this website serves as a platform for insightful news and commentary focused on the politics, development, and culture of the UK capital. OnLondon features a diverse range of contributors who may have differing opinions but are united in their goal to enhance the quality of reporting and discussions about London. Their shared mission is to make the city a better place for its residents and workers. We believe that whatever the ideal city looks like, we strive for London to embody it. While many consider London to be the greatest city in the world, others acknowledge its significant challenges. Interestingly, these perspectives often come from the same individuals. On London understands the complexity of these views. Thank you for stopping by!

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London Councils chair Claire Holland

1 week ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

Claire Holland became a London councillor in 2014, topping the poll in Lambeth’s Oval ward, and only ten years later was elected chair of London Councils, placing her at the head of the cross-party collective of all 33 of the capital’s local authorities.
Mending the Met means rising above the culture warriors

1 week ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

Something unusual happened the other day – a media story about the Metropolitan Police that everyone stood up to applaud. If you haven’t seen it already, it involved two officers from Lambeth dressed up as Batman and Robin apprehending a pair of fleecers operating the old “three cup” racket on Westminster Bridge. The Met has made the most of its pictures of the arrest and favourable coverage has been widespread.
Wandsworth: Labour leader faces challenge from within party group

1 week ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

Wandsworth Council will soon have a new leader if an expected challenge from with its majority Labour group to current group and council leader Simon Hogg is successful, with a decision likely to be made at a meeting scheduled to take place later this month.
How to rid London's high streets of their rubbish

1 week ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

“Many of London’s high streets are dirty,” says a new report about how to put that right. “This is not due to careless fly tippers. It is the system operating normally.”Compiled by Nicholas Boys Smith and Tom Noble of Create Streets, and funded by three of London’s business improvement districts (BIDs), it addresses problems with commercial waste and why so much of it is left lying around.
Tory reported over image which 'depicts violence' against Mayor

2 weeks ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

Social media output by Conservative London Assembly member (AM) and former mayoral candidate Susan Hall attacking Sir Sadiq Khan has prompted a complaint to the Greater London Authority’s monitoring officer, who has a statutory responsibility for ensuring that City Hall politicians adhere to its Code of Conduct, including by investigating potential illegality.
West End problems stem from new consumer appetites and crime

2 weeks ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

It was a lovely photograph, the Mayor, Chancellor and Deputy Prime Minister at Ronnie Scott’s making a harmonised “last orders” call on “red tape” the government is “choking” restaurants, pubs and clubs such as Ronnie’s, a Soho institution since 1959. Scott himself, a saxophonist and compere, would urge audiences to “join hands and contact the living“. A sceptic might invite last week’s politician line-up to get in tune with West End reality.
Silvertown Tunnel: Pros, protests and bigger pictures

2 weeks ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

Look at it this way. For decades, plans and schemes for additional ways to traverse the Thames east of Tower Bridge have come to nothing.
Talk About London: Launch of a new podcast series

3 weeks ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

For a couple of years I and a BBC Radio producer Andrew McGibbon have been putting together radio documentary style podcasts for The London Society, the distinguished charity of which I am a trustee. Run under the series title London Explained, these have been well-received and will continue (in fact, a new one will be released very soon).
Supreme Court upholds approval of Truman Brewery scheme

4 weeks ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

The country’s highest court of appeal has rejected a claim that the decision by the development committee of Tower Hamlets Council to approve plans to build offices and shops on a car park in Brick Lane’s Truman Brewery complex was invalid.
Making a future for London's black cab trade

4 weeks ago | onlondon.co.uk | Dave Hill

New analysis from think tank Centre for London has described an inexorable decline in black cab numbers, from almost 23,000 in 2014 to 14,500 in 2024. Just 104 new drivers joined the trade last year. If the trend isn’t arrested, the report warns, the “iconic” London taxi could be extinct by 2045. We’ve heard this before.