tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64033097447552512592024-03-14T08:05:32.747+00:00LONDON INTELLIGENCEPaul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.comBlogger331125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-7311120044093848092021-04-19T23:19:00.001+01:002021-04-20T09:44:30.788+01:00NHS London GPs: Doctorpreneurs transfer NHS contracts to run 49 London GP surgeries to an American corporationBy Paul ColemanDoctors Usman Quraishi, Muneeb Choudhry, Tarek Radwan, Hasnain Ali Abbasi, Fiyaz Lebbe, and Mohammad Aumran Tahir set up AT Medics in 2004. The six doctorpreneurs then bid for lucrative new primary health care contracts called Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS). Set up by the New Labour government, these contracts allow GPs and their companies to run Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0Atlantic Ocean-14.5994134 -28.6731465-90 -169.2981465 63.571152457341384 111.9518535tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-32698778298448366542020-11-02T13:47:00.003+00:002020-11-02T14:26:02.625+00:00Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre: Loss of vital shops, stalls and community asset to be delayed by court challengeElephant and Castle Shopping Centre (© London Intelligence ®)By Paul ColemanLocal resident campaigners can now mount another legal challenge against developer Delancey's plan to demolish and redevelop the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre.Court of Appeal judges have decided longstanding local resident Jerry Flynn, supported by local campaigners Up the Elephant, can appeal against an October Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-17657812528202711612020-06-23T16:31:00.000+01:002020-06-23T16:31:14.413+01:00Reflections on the Coronavirus pandemic: London June 2020
A cat displays social distancing typical of its species.
By Paul Coleman
Londoners knew little about Coronavirus at the start of 2020.
So what do we know now after seven months of the pandemic and three months of lockdown?
Firstly, there's the death toll across the United Kingdom, estimated at over 60,000 people.
We do know for sure, from official sources based on Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-66007447439986465782020-06-22T07:53:00.000+01:002020-06-22T08:06:42.905+01:00London householders threatened by the demolition of 35,000 council homes
Thousands of Londoners face the loss of their homes, writes Paul Coleman.
Developers and politicians plan to demolish some 35,000 council homes on 100 London housing estates.
Research published by Estate Watch, a new website, shows the Coronavirus pandemic has not halted the destruction of London's publicly owned council homes.
Local authorities - many Labour-controlledPaul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-48200585557867257882020-06-10T08:44:00.000+01:002020-06-11T00:33:14.292+01:00The statue hidden in plain sight that revealed the City of London's cruel history
Robert Milligan was a key figure in the development of the City of London as a global financial centre. Milligan exploited African people as slaves in the eighteenth century. Londoners walked past his statue for over 200 years. But no more. Protestors have forced the removal of Milligan's statue from a Canary Wharf quayside.
The statue of slave owner Robert MilliganPaul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-63134278755496037512020-05-27T12:03:00.002+01:002020-05-28T13:13:03.912+01:00Pandemic London: The Unheeded Scientific Warning of 2014
By Paul Coleman
London Intelligence,
May 2020
Rewind six years to 2014. Duncan Selbie, the chief executive of Public Health England, warns the UK government: 'The prospect of a flu pandemic is one of the highest risks faced by the UK.
'We need to be confident that our planning and responses are sufficiently flexible to deal with every eventuality,' says Selbie.
'Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-32819383974502855892019-07-03T07:39:00.000+01:002019-07-03T07:39:53.025+01:00No fire safety sprinklers - two years after Grenfell and ten since Lakanal
The Hazelwood Tower in north Kensington is just one of almost 2,000 council-owned and managed residential tower blocks in England and Wales with no fitted sprinkler systems.
Sprinkler systems are fitted to only 112 - around five per cent - of 2,107 council-owned housing tower blocks in England and Wales.
Hazelwood Tower overlooks the nearby Grenfell Tower where a fire on 14 June 2017 Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-23528656317309288742019-06-18T18:00:00.000+01:002019-06-18T18:00:07.592+01:00Still no charges brought two years after the Grenfell Tower fire
© Grenfell United June 2019
Campaigners have projected the slogan, '2 years after Grenfell this building still hasn't kept its promises', onto the Houses of Parliament.
Grenfell United - campaigning on behalf of survivors, bereaved and residents - carried out the protest.
Nobody has yet been arrested for the fire on the Lancaster West council estate of 14 June 2017 Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-25895907159744290202019-05-25T15:06:00.000+01:002019-05-27T09:32:34.580+01:00UN poverty expert says UK austerity and welfare cuts violate human rights
UN poverty expert Philip Alston speaks with a Clacton pastor (© United Nations)
United Kingdom government policies have led to the systematic immiseration of millions across Great Britain, according to the United Nations (22 May 2019).
Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, calls for a new vision that embodies compassion to Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-29791813000564907282018-10-05T12:58:00.000+01:002018-10-05T18:12:06.011+01:00Enjoying a lute lunch with the guitarist Michael Butten
© London Intelligence, October 2018
I feel privileged to have lunched today (Thursday, 4 October) with the Italian guitarist Luigi Legnani (1790-1877), the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and the British lutenist John Dowland (1553-1626).
Their 21stCentury central London medium today is the award-winning British guitarist Michael Butten. Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-61968329697211455742018-09-12T10:04:00.002+01:002018-09-12T11:30:45.343+01:00Is Crossrail delayed Crossrail denied ?
By Paul Coleman
It’s not a delay if you stop to
sharpen the scythe.
Delay beats error and always trumps never.
However, such clichés don’t easily hitch to Crossrail,
London’s much-vaunted east-west railway.
Red-faces
It’s autumn 2018 and Crossrail should now be all set for a full operation
of new Elizabeth Line train services, scything through London's congested Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-53335555370723141092018-09-12T00:54:00.004+01:002018-09-12T00:54:56.193+01:00Council Cuts & Thieving Bean Counters
Council Cuts & Thieving Bean Counters, the latest update from Grenfell MediaWatch.
© London Intelligence, September 2018.Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-90321342921246452842018-05-31T17:43:00.000+01:002018-05-31T17:43:18.238+01:00"We will not let you forget" - Grenfell
Bereaved nephew Karim Mussilhy (Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry)
Karim Mussilhy sets the tone for the Grenfell Tower public inquiry with his powerful testimony, writes Paul Coleman.
At one point, an inquiry barrister seems to try to caution Mussilhy’s forthcoming remarks.
But Mussilhy refuses to be “censored”.
His uncle - Hesham Rahman - was killed by the Grenfell fire of 14 Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-1110391582400831082018-05-30T09:33:00.000+01:002018-05-30T09:33:25.189+01:00Grenfell Tower Fire: Flammable cladding ban, 'stay put' and more
"I want you to do right by our family," says Claudia Davies, bereaved ex-partner of Steve Power, one of the 72 people killed as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire.
Davies directly addresses her remarks to the Grenfell Inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick after she and Power's daughter Sherry gave powerful testimony at the inquiry's victim commemoration sessions.
Toyin Agbetu of Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-88891940226585378112018-05-24T19:06:00.003+01:002018-05-29T21:10:05.564+01:00War against cash in the land of meatballs and mooseburgers
By Paul Coleman
© London Intelligence, May 2018
‘Money Money Money’
chorused Abba, one of Sweden’s most successful exports.
The quartet’s 1976 hit replays
in my jukebox brain - especially after visiting the
Abba Museum.
But a war against cash seems a dim and very distant prospect in the city of meatballs and mooseburgers. People in this tranquil place
seem at peace.  Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-88023946719641136552018-04-16T07:32:00.001+01:002018-04-16T07:32:24.961+01:00True forgiveness: ugly 20th Century racism rehashed - Powell, Lawrence, deportation threat
The broken glass of 20th Century race and class reveals its unforgiving sharpness once more in 2018.
Firstly, a clumsy BBC - often confused over how to cover race and class issues - dunks its own head in a race mire by re-hashing and re-broadcasting Enoch Powell's notorious incendiary, racist and mistaken 'rivers of blood' speech from 1968. This is where Powell predicts black immigration will Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-61706879651180974632018-04-13T15:17:00.000+01:002018-04-13T15:29:53.414+01:00Anti-smoking agency PHE tells own smoking staff to 'have more respect'
© London Intelligence 2018
© London Intelligence 2018
Public Health England says
its 'single aim is to motivate
millions of people to make changes that will improve their health' – and that includes persuading people to quit smoking.
However, PHE, an executive
agency of the Department of Health and Social Care, might need to persuade more of its own staff to quit too.&Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-56420462922674874202018-04-07T11:23:00.001+01:002018-04-07T11:23:35.343+01:00After Grenfell, a Blame Game: Grenfell Fire Update
Grenfell fire victims and the tower © Paul Coleman, London Intelligence 2017
Central and local government struggle to mitigate the ongoing tragedy suffered by Grenfell fire survivors, writes Paul Coleman.
Anger centres on the slow rehousing of households evacuated from their Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk homes. Of 209 evacuated households, 86 remain in emergency Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-48942880003121681482018-02-22T21:23:00.002+00:002018-02-22T21:23:52.262+00:00Land Worth More Than Londoners: Reported sale of Brixton MarketReport of sale of Brixton Village and famous market.
http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2018/02/brixton-village-and-market-row-sold-to-private-group-of-companies-for-37m/
©️ London Intelligence, February 2018.Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-54019003222851878452017-12-08T23:59:00.000+00:002017-12-18T22:02:22.184+00:00Film Review: 'Concrete Soldiers UK'
Silent march for Grenfell Tower fire victims and survivors 14 December © London Intelligence 2017
Londoners who live on council estates are ‘not worth the land they live on’, says Concrete Soldiers UK (dir. Nikita Woolfe, UK 2017), an independent documentary.
Nikita Woolfe’s strident 62-minute film,
condemning developer-led, council-backed ‘regeneration’ of London
council estates, Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-36188255006122850072017-12-03T12:34:00.004+00:002017-12-03T12:34:57.065+00:00Level Crossing Safety update 2017: Network Rail, Tina Hughes, Elsenham
Safeguarding the legacy of Liv and Charlie
By Paul Coleman
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The mother of one of two girls
killed by a train twelve years ago believes railway level crossings
still pose a serious danger to members of the public.
Tina Hughes is the mother of 14-year-old
Olivia 'Liv' Bazlinton, who was killed with her friend Charlotte 'Charlie' Thompson,
13, at the Elsenham level crossing on Saturday Paul Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12120041247723867300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403309744755251259.post-37123098166434083802017-05-31T17:02:00.001+01:002017-06-01T09:10:33.621+01:00'Never demolish' : Frédéric Druot, Tour Bois-le-Prêtre and the Art of Refurbishment
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