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Posts in: Ethics
Ethical considerations in community and political activities.
Local Democracy
Environment
Commentary
Gasworks
Ealing Labour
Berkeley Group
Housing
Ethics
Exposes
The Man in the Middle
Yes, yes, yes, he’s on the right in this picture!
On 6 November 2023, Berkeley Group’s Southall development — The Green Quarter, rising on the site of the former Southall gasworks — handed a £2,500 cheque to the Western Road Urban Garden Project.
The cheque was branded with Berkeley’s logo and The Green Quarter’s name.
It was presented in the garden and photographed for Berkeley’s website, where the story was published on 23 January 2024.
The image is striking …
Local Democracy
Commentary
Children's Centres
Ealing Labour
Ethics
Updates
It Takes Two to Tango
The campaign to save ten of Ealing’s children’s centres was lost in the High Court in April.
The approved judgment in R (JO) v London Borough of Ealing is on the record. The claim was dismissed. Ealing Council won.
But the judgment is worth reading carefully — because what Mr Justice Kimblin did not find is as instructive as what he did.
A reader picked me up on Facebook for writing in The Smell of Success that:
“Mason’s council took a toddler to the high court.” …
Investigations
Community
Commentary
Ealing Labour
Health
Ethics
The Drugs Don't Work
This is the story about how Ealing’s incredibly valuable and (very likely) hugely under-resourced drug and alcohol treatment service has been moved about, along with its vulnerable service users, for what appears to be — at least partly — political gain by Ealing Labour.
The scale of the borough’s substance misuse crisis is real.
According to the council’s own 2025 Substance Misuse Service report, Ealing has an estimated 2,103 opiate and crack users and 3,658 alcohol dependent drinkers. …
Local Democracy
Community
Commentary
Ealing Labour
Features
Research
Ethics
Cactuses Never Die
Yousef Qandeel was not born in al-Dawayima. He arrived five years too late for that. But he carries the keys.
Three iron keys on a ring, dark with age and heavy in the hand. They open nothing now — the house they belonged to no longer exists. The village it stood in no longer exists. In its place, since 1955, sits an Israeli settlement.
Where Palestinian families once marked the boundaries of their homes by planting prickly pear cactus — sabr in Arabic, the same word as patience — the land has …
Environment
Commentary
Gasworks
Ealing Labour
Health
Ethics
AI
Risks to Health from Remediating Southall Gasworks
AI is more ethical than Ealing Labour Party. No money was exchanged.
What are the risks to health from remediating Southall Gasworks on site in the open air? The land is highly contaminated with benzene, naphthalene and a while host of other VOCs, PAHs, heavy metals, “blue billy” and asbestos, and surrounded by residential streets. The local community is mostly of south Asian and African heritage, and it is known that people with this heritage can be genetically vulnerable to …
Local Democracy
Environment
Community
Commentary
Gasworks
Ealing Labour
Health
Ethics
AI
I am the Leader of Ealing Council
I asked Google Bard to advise me on a local matter.
I am the leader of Ealing Council. I have received more than 250 reports about a BAD odour nuisance and air pollution from the remediation of the highly contaminated Southall Gasworks land. We had a public meeting where 250 angry residents complained about health problems as a result of the air pollution, including eye, nose and throat irritation, respiratory problems and infections, and even cancer and death of loved ones. The developer has …
Environment
Community
Commentary
Gasworks
Berkeley Group
Health
Personal
Ethics
Pollution
The Gaslighting Zone
@Southall_Wside @theCALMzone @bonappetit #StopPoisoningSouthall @SouthallGaswork
You guys are really taking the piss now, aren't you?
@Southall_Wside @theCALMzone @bonappetit @SouthallGaswork .@PHE_London report on the health impact of @Southall_Wside @SouthallGaswork:
@Southall_Wside @theCALMzone @bonappetit @SouthallGaswork @PHE_London Residents' own survey conducted a year ago:
Not sure how @theCALMzone think that #BerkeleyHomes and @Southall_Wside are in any way an …
Investigations
Campaigns
Environment
Gasworks
Berkeley Group
Research
Health
Ethics
Pollution
Naphthalene Poisoning Risk in People of African and Asian Heritage
Scientific and medical research shows that people of Asian and African ethnicity are genetically more susceptible to naphthalene poisoning via inhalation.
@PHE_London representative Robie Kamanyire falsely claimed this is from ingestion only.
youtube.com/embed/ZdTj-l3S…
@PHE_London 50% ingested, 50% inhaled vapours.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…
@PHE_London Roby Kamanyire has emailed the following response to my query. 
@PHE_London It beggars belief, his response. …