Local Democracy
It Takes Two to Tango
Dancing by numbers and closing children’s centres to improve them.
Recording what happens to Southall — and who is responsible.
Local people. Local questions.
Digging the dirt, unearthing the truth.
As read by Ealing Council’s Press Office
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Children's Centres
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Campaigns
Save Ealing Children’s Centres Campaign Update
The Save Ealing Children’s Centres campaign raised over £5,000 in just eight days to fund legal action against Ealing Council’s plan to close ten of the …
Local Democracy
The Pied Piper of Ealing
A school performance of The Pied Piper becomes a perfect metaphor for local politics, where broken promises about children’s services mirror the fairy …
Local Democracy
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 voting yourself a 70% pay rise, and marvel at Ealing’s democratic …
Campaigns
Perceval House W5: Where Local Democracy in Ealing Goes to Die
An exposé of how Ealing Council’s circular bureaucracy makes democratic accountability impossible, told through one mother’s struggle to save her local …