London’s nightlife is circling the drain in quite the antithesis to both the Mayor and her press releases. It is bucking the more positive national trend as the sector returns to growth.
How many more talented people from good careers outside of politics are there in the public willing to take such a difficult job at such a large personal and financial expense?
Future Priti Patels and Bim Afolamis of the world may be held back in they don’t stand for Parliament in Watford or Bracknell, and I think that’s a real shame – don’t you?
For a few weeks, some of society’s most privileged people get to LARP as the oppressed victims of a tyrannical foreign regime – whilst terrorising Jewish students at their own colleges.
Amy Lamé has been the subject of several petitions to be sacked – or have the role scrapped entirely – with leading industry groups and businesses describing her as ‘non-existent’.
Pierre Pierre has gone beyond wonkish economic arguments to spell out the moral, social, and conservative consequences of the crisis.
In Labour-run Hackney, al fresco dining and drinking is banned after 10pm. In Labour-run Westminster, al fresco dining and drinking remains banned in Soho.
A Labour activist with an £85,000-per-annum sinecure left her unpaid Manchester counterpart to fight for British clubbing.
Its plans for Late-Night Economic Zones excludes Soho, Covent Garden, Mayfair, Seven Dials, Chinatown, Shaftesbury Avenue, Piccadilly Circus and yes, even Leicester Square – but includes Oxford Street.