Investigations
Ealing For Sale
Ealing Council’s 2023 strategy document officially confirms what began in 2007 with the Dominion Centre template: a systematic 18-year asset disposal …
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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 …
Local Democracy
ToryBoy
Inspired by a filmmaker’s failed attempt to unseat an invisible Labour MP, David Marsden’s own 2022 campaign as an independent candidate in Ealing’s safest …
Investigations
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 in Southall that local people can’t afford and don’t …
Campaigns
Weasel Words on Air Quality Monitoring
Ealing Labour Council has shown negligence towards the health of Southall’s schoolchildren by disregarding air quality issues linked to a nearby toxic …
Investigations
Ealing Monopoly
An exclusive group of wealthy, mostly white men conspired to profit from Ealing’s public assets during a financial crisis while not being elected for such …
Local Democracy
Ealing Labour Leaks
Leaked WhatsApp messages from Ealing Labour councillors reveal internal conflicts, allegations of bullying and corruption, and criticism of leadership …
Local Democracy
From the Southall Big Plan AGM in 2017
Elected representatives continue to neglect longstanding issues in Southall, exacerbating problems like housing and traffic while failing to address …
Campaigns
Strawberries for Pigs?
A father’s discovery that his child’s garden strawberries were poisoned by toxic air from nearby gasworks becomes a meditation on how Labour councillors …
Local Democracy
Trigger Vote for Sharma
Why Southall MP Virendra Sharma faced a trigger ballot in 2019: years of invisibility on local issues, bizarre outbursts at constituents, and failure to …
Campaigns
Southall under Siege: the Neighbours from Hell
For years, residents of Britain’s most diverse community were forced to breathe carcinogenic fumes from a toxic waste site while council leaders accepted …
Investigations
PHE cover-up, continued
This forensic analysis exposes a sophisticated data manipulation operation where Public Health England and Atkins systematically concealed escalating toxic …
Investigations
Berkeley's School Governors Board Member
Concerns have been raised about air pollution from the Berkeley Group’s construction affecting students’ health at Blair Peach Primary School.
Investigations
Visit to Southall Waterside (aka The Green Quarter)
Concerns are raised over the safety and environmental impact of the Southall Waterside development and its associated companies.