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2026

  • Section 106 money: where did Southall’s “developer tax” go? Over five years, Southall generated more than £13m in developer contributions but received less than …

  • Bangarang! Pirate Pete and the Lost Bin Collections of Southall The Lost Boys were right all along. They saw what Peter Pan couldn’t: that refusing to grow up …

  • The EA Files: What Regulators Knew About Fire Risks at Southall Recycling Site An incendiary paper trail of inspections, warnings and half-measures that makes the “unfortunate …

  • How to Report Nuisance and Pollution in Ealing How the convoluted, exclusionary and ineffective reporting system seems designed to fail residents …

  • The Council Investigation That Found Nothing A year-long investigation by the council into complaints about harmful practices at the Johnson …

  • Demolition Man: Peter Mason's Legacy of Half-Built Homes and Hollow Promises Peter Mason’s wrecking ball housing legacy: shifting statistics, botched contracts, half-built …

  • A Fire We Were Warned About Within hours of publishing an update on Southall’s Toxic Town scandal, the recycling site behind our …

  • Toxic Town - Have You Been Affected? After years unable to analyse the contamination data, AI has finally revealed what authorities …

2025

  • Ealing For Sale Ealing Council’s 2023 strategy document officially confirms what began in 2007 with the …

  • Save Ealing Children’s Centres Campaign Update The Save Ealing Children’s Centres campaign raised over £5,000 in just eight days to fund …

  • The Pied Piper of Ealing A school performance of The Pied Piper becomes a perfect metaphor for local politics, where broken …

  • So it Goes: AI on the Absurd Logic of Ealing Council Two AI hosts discover the perfect mathematical logic of closing children’s centres while …

  • Perceval House W5: Where Local Democracy in Ealing Goes to Die An exposé of how Ealing Council’s circular bureaucracy makes democratic accountability …

2024

  • Southall Odours A resident’s morning walk through Southall reveals the multiple sources of air pollution - …

  • COPD Living with chronic lung disease in Britain’s most polluted community, where personal health …

  • The Cuckoo's Nest Despite twenty years of resident surveys and failed plans, Ealing Council’s latest Southall …

2023

  • Developers, if you Really Want to Help A resident’s response to developers proposing a massive data centre in Southall challenges …

  • ToryBoy Inspired by a filmmaker’s failed attempt to unseat an invisible Labour MP, David …

  • Risks to Health from Remediating Southall Gasworks Google’s AI provides more ethical guidance than Ealing Council leaders, recommending that …

  • I am the Leader of Ealing Council When asked how to handle toxic air pollution complaints while accepting £30,000 from the polluting …

  • Response to Ealing's Air Quality Strategy and Action Plan Ealing Council’s draft air quality strategy promises to protect residents from pollution while …

2022

  • The Property Lobby: the Hidden Reality behind the Housing Crisis in Ealing How property developers paid Ealing councillors to holiday in Cannes while planning 14,800 new homes …

  • Weasel Words on Air Quality Monitoring Ealing Labour Council has shown negligence towards the health of Southall’s schoolchildren by …

  • Ealing Monopoly An exclusive group of wealthy, mostly white men conspired to profit from Ealing’s public …

  • Ealing Labour Leaks Leaked WhatsApp messages from Ealing Labour councillors reveal internal conflicts, allegations of …

2021

  • Questions for Cabinet Leads Concerns have been raised regarding the impact of air pollution from the Southall Gasworks site on …

  • From the Southall Big Plan AGM in 2017 Elected representatives continue to neglect longstanding issues in Southall, exacerbating problems …

  • Look at these Bricks! The text discusses the progress and promises regarding the construction of genuinely affordable …

  • Strawberries for Pigs? A father’s discovery that his child’s garden strawberries were poisoned by toxic air …

2020

  • High Traffic Neighbourhood An hour-long school run through Southall’s traffic gridlock reveals how ‘improving …

2019

  • Trigger Vote for Sharma Why Southall MP Virendra Sharma faced a trigger ballot in 2019: years of invisibility on local …

  • The Gaslighting Zone Residents express frustration over toxic air quality and question the appropriateness of …

  • Southall under Siege: the Neighbours from Hell For years, residents of Britain’s most diverse community were forced to breathe carcinogenic …

  • PHE cover-up, continued This forensic analysis exposes a sophisticated data manipulation operation where Public Health …

  • Naphthalene Poisoning Risk in People of African and Asian Heritage Research indicates that people of Asian and African descent are more vulnerable to naphthalene …

  • PHE cover-up? Benzene levels significantly exceeded safety standards in early 2019, contradicting reassurances by …

  • The Health and Other Impacts of Southall Waterside on Southall & Hayes Residents Residents express significant health concerns and property damage due to the Southall Waterside …

  • Pull the Other One, Julian Julian Bell, the leader of Ealing Council, controversially downplayed air quality concerns at a …

2018

  • Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics? Searched project for “Berkeley Group statistical manipulation benzene levels unit conversion mg/m3 …

  • Countering the Southall Waterside Narrative Berkeley’s Southall Waterside narrative is systematically dismantled through exposure of their …

  • Berkeley's School Governors Board Member Concerns have been raised about air pollution from the Berkeley Group’s construction affecting …

  • Health Risks of Exposure to Benzene Benzene exposure, even at low levels, poses significant health risks including cancer, neurological …

  • Meeting Berkeley Group A meeting with Berkeley Group representatives left local residents feeling misled and disrespected, …

  • Visit to Southall Waterside (aka The Green Quarter) Concerns are raised over the safety and environmental impact of the Southall Waterside development …