Series 2 Episode 13 On Inside City Hall this episode, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: ULEZ - a "major" announcement. The Mayor makes a "major" announcement about ULEZ Scrappage, but it looks more like a rounding error that fails to solve the cost of living impact of the Mayor's charge and still leaves companies playing ULEZ Musical Chairs with too few compliant vans available to meet the demand. Solar Together. The contractor that caused so many problems with their Mayoral-approved solar panel programme has gone into liquidation, making a bad situation worse. A follow up  to the st ..read more

Series 2 Episode 12 On Inside City Hall this episode, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: Shawcross review. The Police and Crime Committee looked at the major review of the Prevent anti-terrorism programme. ULEZ. Unusually, not the charge itself but TfL's "computer says no" approach to people trying to pay it. Wennington fire. The London Fire Brigade's review of last year's major blaze which highlights that the LFB faces some distinctly rural firefighting problems, as well as more familiar urban and high rise challenges. Mayor's Junk Food ad ban. Research widely quoted by the Mayor and his ..read more

Series 2 Episode 11 This week on Inside City Hall, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: People's Question Time. The people want to talk about ULEZ, but the Mayor wants to smear critics as "holding hands with the far right". City Hall Budget. And the Conservative alternative to tackle dirty air and the cost of living. Road Pricing. The Mayor's post-ULEZ pay-per-mile plan to charge every vehicle in London every time it moves, which is starting to look increasingly like a plan to tax outer London to fund TfL services in central and inner London. Operation Elaborate. A major police operation to ..read more

Series 2 Episode 10 This week on Inside City Hall, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: The Mayor's Cost of Living Summit with Martin Lewis the Money Saving Expert does not go as planned when the public bring up ULEZ and Martin thinks they have a point. Then undermines the Mayor's rent control obsession. Blue light shared working, eg police making use of space in fire stations. Missing children. Staggeringly, Police in London record 25,447 cases of missing children per year relating to 8,414 individuals.   What have we been reading, watching, or listening to this week? Diary of a CEO E ..read more

 Series 2 Episode 9 This week on Inside City Hall, Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: - The new ULEZ Scrappage scheme, which launched on Monday, - How Sir Mark Rowley is cleaning up the Met, while the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime may not be helping, - Nick's article on the future of Conservatives in millennial London, - The Night Czar gets 40% pay rise, but what is there to show for her existence?   What have we been reading, watching, or listening to this week? - City Journal's 10 Blocks podcast - Short Circuit (1986) classic 80s sci fi - I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - Explo ..read more

Series 2, Episode 8. How the Mayor's ULEZ lines crumbled Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers are joined by fellow AM Peter Fortune in the aftermath of an explosive January Mayoral Question Time at which we confronted Mayor Khan with the paper trail showing the Mayor had made false and dishonest statements about his ULEZ consultation. It's been covered by the BBC, ITV, the Evening Standard but here we go behind the scenes to discuss what we actually knew, what the Mayor claimed, and how the Mayor's statements simply don't hold up.  We also discuss The West Wing, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the dou ..read more

Series 2, Episode 7. Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers review the latest news from London and City Hall, in this episode: - Mayor Sadiq Khan's Solar Together plan for home solar panels. Aiming to generate electricity, it's also generated huge numbers of complaints, even the Mayor publicly admitted it had gone wrong. Neil's Audit Panel has investigated and found serious problems with the process. - A year of zero youth murders in Croydon. A great news story and a big turnaround from 2021, what's beind it? - The Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) consultation results are in, what did Londoners really thi ..read more

Series 2, Episode 6. Neil and Nick are joined in the Windsor Castle pub by special guest Dr Tom Cohen, a Senior Lecturer in transport at the University of Westminster. We discuss: - Childhood transport memories, - Active travel, cycling, e-bikes and e-scooters, - "shared mobility" such as dockless bikes, and why it's not really sharing if you charge rent, - How to run consultations with the public that don't look like a "fix" (one for the Mayor to tune in...)  - The 1 hour transport "budget" and whether transport should try to go faster. - The 15 minute city, how it goes wrong (clue: peop ..read more

This week on Inside City Hall: - Neil and Nick give their first impressions of Sir Mark Rowley after his first appearance at the Police and Crime Committee, - What to do about Just Stop Oil? What did Sir Mark say when we asked him? - Neil laments attacks on art, will galleries just put everything behind glass like the Mona Lisa? - Sustained questioning of the Mayor about ULEZ, where he admitted it might be delayed because of the cost of living pressure, - and the Mayor's extraordinary claim that he neither asked for nor received any information about the ULEZ consultation between May and Octob ..read more

London Assembly Members Neil Garratt and Nick Rogers discuss: - The Met Police being put in "special measures", - The Mayor's ULEZ consultation, - Car ownership patterns across London, including this fascinating map, - The emerging truth about the Mayor's City Hall move. Spoiler: it hasn't gone well, savings are already just half what he claimed, and the Mayor has asked staff to get back in the office even though his new smaller building means most staff don't have desks. You can enter the Mayor's ULEZ consultation most easily by emailing your view to: cleanairyourview ..read more