Scandal of the council-owned empty garages continues

Our survey identified 15,875 of them. Many of these could be redeveloped to provide new homes.

Tim Briggs: Celebrate Windrush Day – by ending identity politics

Asserting that everyone not white or male is a victim, and that all white people are racist is insidious and self-destructive.

A lesson from Lewisham East?

Brexit poses a values and voting challenge for both the main parties. It may be even bigger for Labour than for the Conservatives.

Charley Jarrett: Why all council wards should be multi-member – and how to end one-party councils

A proportional distribution of seats within multi-member wards would achieve greater fairness and more competition.

Francis Davis: Why Hinds’ faith schools cap decision was right

Voluntary-aided status works both for Catholic schools and everyone else. Furthermore, lifting the cap from new institutions could have had unexpected consequences.

Multi-member council wards should be abolished

Smaller electoral areas with just one councillor each would make for less confusion, more accountability – and fewer one party states.

Exclusive: Labour Party BAME officer shares graphic equating Israel and Nazi Germany

Dorian Bartley, whose day job involves working alongside police to “reduce crime”, also shared conspiracy theories about terrorist attacks in the UK and US.

The local election results in London will provide a mixed picture

Pundits are expecting a drubbing for the Conservatives in the capital. But some boroughs will buck the trend. I predict unpredictability.

Charlie Elphicke: Momentum threatens to take London back to the past

Red Ted Knight and the then Militant Tendency were a disaster for Lambeth. The hard left has returned – new bottles, yet very much the nastiest of old wine.

London Labour councils are punishing the poor

The high Council Tax taper in Lambeth, Brent, Harrow, and Waltham Forest means less incentive to come off benefits and into work.

Tim Briggs: Let’s show solidarity with the Venezuelans who have fled to London

Many Labour councillors are still backing the Maduro dictatorship. This is something we need to challenge.

Council spending on replacement lifts is out of control

The huge variation in costs does suggest that some councils, including mine, are likely to be paying over the odds.

Tim Briggs: Lambeth, the once loony now ‘post-truth’ Labour borough

They push dishonest figures on homelessness and council funding – but the belief of Labour councillors in their own civic virtue remains constant.

“Red Ted” Knight, hero of the 1980s loony left, regains elected office in the Labour Party

He was barred from public office after leading Lambeth to disaster. But under Corbyn he’s back.

Lewis Baston: That “racist Tory leaflet” in Smethwick was certainly racist – but it wasn’t Tory

None the less, the local Conservatives exploited the climate of prejudice, while Labour sometimes bent to accommodate it.