Campaigns
Lift-Off! Ealing Elections Special
Massive vote loss for Mason’s Labour as Greens and ECI make historic breakthroughs.
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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Features
19 stories
Local Democracy
The Meeting that Ended Local Democracy in Southall
How the panic of July 2019 prompted the cancellation of ward forums, councillor surgeries, and election hustings.
Local Democracy
Cactuses Never Die
Yousef Qandeel holds the keys to his home in a village that no longer exists. He is standing for election in Greenford Broadway on 7 May. This is his story …
Campaigns
"This Place Has Turned Into a Bloody Slum": Southall Wards Meeting with ECI candidates
Ealing Community Independents' Southall Wards Engagement Evening highlighted local grievances and called for community empowerment in response to …
Investigations
What Happened to Southall?
A new report by Community Powered Reporting critically examines Ealing Council’s shortcomings in addressing issues in Southall, highlighting various …
Local Democracy
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 homes rotting in Southall Green, and zero accountability.
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 …
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
Southall Odours
A resident’s morning walk through Southall reveals the multiple sources of air pollution - from gasworks remediation to illegal burning to traffic fumes - …
Local Democracy
The Cuckoo's Nest
Despite twenty years of resident surveys and failed plans, Ealing Council’s latest Southall ‘consultation’ delivers the same problems, the same …
Environment
Developers, if you Really Want to Help
A resident’s response to developers proposing a massive data centre in Southall challenges them to address the community’s real needs: thousands of trees, …
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
Response to Ealing's Air Quality Strategy and Action Plan
Ealing Council’s draft air quality strategy promises to protect residents from pollution while simultaneously allowing the very developments and practices …
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 …
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
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 …