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- EXCL: We mapped every pub almost shut or that had its hours limited after neighbours complained to the council about noise. Often the complaints were as small as "faint giggles" or hypothetical "honking" from traffic. Dozens of London pubs were affected in the last year alone.
- The Labour MP Jas Athwal said he knows "nothing about it" when we called to ask him about the failing children's home in his property. When we mentioned the home's owner, his friend and longtime tenant Daljit Johal, he hung up.
00:00 - Ben Judah is a special advisor to Foreign Secretary David Lammy. In 2016, he wrote a book about the capital called 'This is London'. We read it when we started The Londoner to get insights into the city. We found a book littered with racial stereotypes and falsehoods. 🧵
- EXCL: City Hall gave an East London university a £1.6m grant 11 months after it hired the mayor's wife. No university has received as big a grant for the last five years. The project it funded has failed to deliver the hundreds of green jobs it promised.
- Exciting to see the @theLDNstandard cover our exclusive investigation into Sadiq Khan. It's a shame it took them 16 paragraphs to mention it was our scoop though. If you want to get the biggest London stories first, try subscribing to us directly.Firm that gifted Sadiq Khan free Taylor Swift tickets 'had won £45m of City Hall contracts' standard.co.uk/news/london/sa…
- These are pictures of the conditions at two new blocks of flats in Barking. The firms that built them were given tens of millions in contracts by the council to do so, after giving expensive gifts and even jobs to councillors. The council called it a "non-story". Do you agree?
- Our Jas Athwal story is in @thetimes today. 'Mould landlord' MP back in spotlight. Also being reported by @TheSun, @BigIssue, @POLITICOEurope and @GuidoFawkes.
- EXCL: How a Labour MP evicted a homeless mother of two @AndrewKersley exposes how one of parliament's biggest landlords made a tenant homeless. Bayo Alaba made money renting homes as homeless accommodation to a the council he served on as a councillor.
- 🚨Bayo Alaba calls our reporting "deeply misleading" but does not dispute a single fact in our story. If he thinks his record as a landlord reflects his values, why has he never mentioned that he earns substantial rent from his own council, or that he evicted a homeless mother?
- Replying to @_TheLondonerCasual stereotyping around race or nationality quickly become a motif. At one point he describes a black man as looking "pure African" and having a "melon head", as well as calling a little boy in a gang he meets "yet another black Oliver Twist".
- Campaigners and rental charities have branded the allegations against Athwal “disgraceful”, adding that it is “vital” for vulnerable children to live in safe homes. @BigIssue takes the story on.
- Replying to @_TheLondonerLater in the book Judah claims the "red-brick mosque at the bottom of Ilford Lane" was "ecstatic" when there was an extremist 'Shariah patrol' nearby. That fact came as a shock to the mosque’s secretary for the last 28 years, Ash Siddique, who called the claim "total nonsense".
