True London

The UK capital is routinely and sometimes mischievously misrepresented and misunderstood. This is bad for the city and for the country, which depends heavily on London's economy, its international character and its global prestige - even though it often fails to recognise this or admit it. The True London podcast series is dedicated to covering London's politics, places and people accurately and fairly with a view to challenging false narratives about the city - and hopefully entertains along the way. It augments and complements the output of the journalism website OnLondon.co.uk and the personal Substack of Dave Hill , who edits and publishes On London and presents True London . Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:gr

True London is a government podcast hosted by Dave Hill, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Dave Hill hosts True London, a government show with 16 episodes published.

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  Episode #16

  How London is Misperceived. With Dr Jack Brown

  Sep 21, 202623 minS1

  The Policy Institute at King's College has produced an authoritative study of the differences between what the British public believes about London and what official statistics show, concentrating mostly on crime the capital's population and its general quality of life. Dr Jack Brown is Senior Lecturer in Government Studies at King's and the author of, among other top pieces of work about the capital, a short book called The London Problem (Haus Publishing) . It was a pleasure to speak to him about the Policy Institute's very illuminating findings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #15

  The Lib Dem challenge in Southwark & elsewhere

  Apr 30, 202619 minS1

  <p>This year's local elections in London are the most unpredictable for years and likely to produce changes in the political control of most of the capital's 32 boroughs. The Liberal Democrats have had less publicity than all the other parties, yet the have good grounds for thinking they will emerge stronger after 7 May. They may not win a majority on Labour-run Southwark Council but hope to win a substantial numbers of seats, perhaps the largest number, in a possible hung council. </p><br><p>The leader of the Lib Dem group, Victor Chamberlain, talked about their local campaign on the...

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  Episode #14

  Inclusion and belonging in Newham

  Apr 5, 202620 minS1

  Sunder is the director of British Future, a think tank concerned with the big issues of integration, identity, ethnicity and culture. It has just published a highly illuminating report about how best to keep on bringing people together in the high-diversity east London borough of Newham. Read it here.<p > Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.</p>

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  Episode #13

  Antisemitism and other hatreds in the city - and how to stop them

  Mar 26, 202626 minS1

  <p>Daniel Sugarman is the deputy editor of Jewish News. He's written eloquently about the impacts of antisemitic attacks on Jewish communities, including the one at the start of this week that saw the torching of ambulances owned and operated - for the benefit of people of all faiths and none - by a Jewish charity. This took place in the car park of a synagogue in Golders Green, an area where many Jewish Londoners live. </p><br><p>Jewish News also recently ran a powerful editorial in response to extraordinary and virulent attacks by right-wing politicians on an entirely...

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  Episode #12

  Any progress on the housing emergency?

  Mar 18, 202620 minS1

  Last year saw some big initiatives designed to get housing supply in the capital going again, including lowering the Mayor's affordable threshold, easing some planning requirements, a new Social And Affordable Homes Programme allocation and the recommendation of two sites for London New Towns. More recently, we've seen a move towards "rent convergence" for social housing landlords (see my explainer here). But there were also many factors working against more building. Has there been any useful progress since then? Dan Reast of Centre for London is admirably well-informed. <p > Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.</p>

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