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Six hundred years separate two post-election protests, but the issues at hand are strangely similar and the mistakes too easily repeated.
The Queensland Police will now disclose all sponsorships, after a backlash over almost A$700,000 in unnamed donations. But what are the lessons from elsewhere about police and corporate donors?
Hong Kong’s investors have been snapping up London property for years – and now, they’re turning their attention elsewhere.
Joseph Haydn’s visits to London changed the course of music history.
With past controversies ranging from restoration to public toilets and present ones from oil sponsorship to selfie sticks, Gabriele Finaldi has a daunting task on his hands.
It’s hard to imagine a more fitting venue for a show based on George R R Martin’s notoriously brutal novels.
Cities may only occupy about 2% of the world’s habitable land, but they are big drivers of global climate change. Cities are usually hotter than rural areas, and get referred to in the jargon as “urban…
When it was announced last year that Coca-Cola had agreed a two-year sponsorship deal with the owners of the London Eye, the general manager of the company’s UK and Ireland operations said the sponsorship…
The conventional image of suburbia is one of bland affluence and social homogeneity. Suburbs are where the middle classes aspire to make their nests. They are the idealised safe havens for raising children…
The legendary club Madame Jojo’s recently announced that its doors were closing, prompting many to mourn the death of Soho. But the area has been subject to various “clean-up” campaigns throughout its…
With a forced smile and through gritted teeth, Tower Hamlets’ elected mayor, Lutfur Rahman, has announced himself willing to accept – and even “welcome” – the intervention package set out for his borough…
Pupils in London do better at school than the rest of the country, but why? Sam Freedman, a former adviser to Michael Gove and now head of an education charity has called this “the biggest question in…
In 1919, Ivy MacKusick, an art student at UCL’s Slade School of Fine Art, completed a Portrait of a Man in His Shirtsleeves. We know nothing about the man of African descent depicted in this portrait…
London has long been one of the world’s most congested cities. Before a £5 “congestion charge” was introduced for vehicles entering the city centre, cars would spend a third of their time in peak hours…
London has more than 40 “ghost” underground stations that are awaiting a new function. Now, Transport for London is inviting companies to submit bids to transform them. But is this a good idea and does…
If you think of Sherlock Holmes, you will invariably think of London – to be precise, 221B Baker Street, which the great detective shared his adventures with Dr Watson. A new exhibition based, unsurprisingly…
Plans for a new £600m “floating” cycle route along the edge of the River Thames in London have been announced. It is expected to stretch for around seven miles from Battersea, west of the city centre…
A year-and-a-half after the Southbank Centre published its plans for the redeveloped Festival Wing that would have removed the skaters from their habitual haunt in the building’s undercroft, the plans…
The Airports Commission has finally rejected Boris Johnson’s proposal for a new international hub in the Thames estuary, reinforcing the expectation that Heathrow and possibly Gatwick will be given the…
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Researcher in Transport Policy and Governance, UCL
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Professor in Human Geography, Royal Holloway University of London
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Associate Tutor, University of Surrey
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Professor and Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
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Professor In Criminology, Staffordshire University
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Associate Professor in North American History, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor in Security and Crime Science, UCL
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Professor of Public Policy, Queen Mary University of London
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Honorary Professor of Transport Studies, UCL
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Professor in Public Policy, De Montfort University
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Professor of Ideology and Discourse Analysis, University of Essex
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Professor of Urban Resilience and Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Bristol
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Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, University of Sheffield
