True London

By Dave Hill

The UK capital is routinely and sometimes mischievously misrepresented and misunderstood. This is bad for the city and for the country, which depends heavily on London's economy, its international

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True London episodes:

January 31, 2026 Should the Met be just for London?
Nick regards the present accountability arrangements for policing in the capital as a mess, leaving London's Mayors having to accept a lot of responsibility for policing and crime while having few powers to go with it. The Home Secretary has just announced plans for reorganising and reforming police services nationally. Will they result in a better settlement for London?
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January 17, 2026 Lewis Baston on the 2026 borough elections
Lewis is one of the most respected elections analysts in the country and On London is delighted to frequently publish his work. This year's borough elections are very likely to produce a very different set of results from those of 2022 or 2018, with Labour losing lots of seats. But the Conservatives might too, especially in some suburban boroughs where Reform UK poses a threat. And to which alternatives might voters who desert Labour turn?
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21min
December 03, 2025 Rescuing Westminster housing estates. With Jonathan Rosenberg
Jonathon was in the thick of community defiance of the notorious Dame Shirley's Porter and her Conservative council administration
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23min
November 27, 2025 Is the Met improving? With Marina Ahmad
Marina Ahmad is the London Assembly member for Lambeth & Southwark and currently chairs that body's police and crime committee at a time when the Metropolitan Police Commissioner is striving to improve the professionalism and culture of the service.
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20min
November 21, 2025 Skills for a good growth city, with Muniya Barua
Muniya Barua is deputy chief executive of BusinessLDN, an organisation that represents many of the capital's biggest employers. She knows what she is talking about.
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19min
October 20, 2025 Does Labour care about London?
Despite its numerous problems in government, Labour remains the most popular party in London. But is it taking the capital for granted? Is it even joining in with anti-London populism in order to win favour elsewhere in the country? And is it going to regret it?

The brilliant Christabel, director of research at Labour Together, has answers to all of those questions.

She also writes for OnLondon.co.uk.
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20min
October 01, 2025 Is the Fair Funding Review fair to London? With Tony Travers
Professor Tony Travers of the London School of Economics is the best person you could possibly have to explain the fairness or otherwise of the government's plans for changing how it contributes to the funding of local government. We also dipped into the government Pride in Place funding programme and consider whether that will do much for the Uk capital, which is rich in many ways yet also has very high poverty rates.
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23min
September 28, 2025 Cllr Hina Bokhari AM: Lib Dems hopes, Sadiq, Trump & racism's return
Previously a school teacher like her dad, Hina Bokhari has been a Liberal Democrat Merton councillor since 2018, the first Muslim woman to win a seat in that borough. She was elected to the London Assembly in 2021.

In our conversation she reflects on her party's recent conference, its attitude to London and hopes for making gains at next year's borough elections and speaks with feeling about the recent increase in racist incidents and flag intimidation.

She also speaks up for the Labour Mayor following Donald Trump's latest insulting behaviour and recalls her father being a teacher and mentor to the young Sir Sadiq.
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24min
September 07, 2025 Jenevieve Treadwell on the Green Party's prospects
The Green Party's new national leader is a confident, charismatic, self-styled "eco populist" who has a seat on the London Assembly. Will his elevation help his party's electoral prospects n the capital or hinder them?

An LSE Policy Fellow and expert number cruncher, Jenevieve Treadwell looks at the challenges the party faces with holding its broad electoral coalition together and making it bigger. Green supporters in Lambeth and Hackney might be enthused by Polanski's radicalism. But what about those in Richmond?
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September 03, 2025 Transport hot topics with Elly Baker AM
As well as being a Labour AM, Elly Baker is the current chair of the London Assembly's transport committee. In this podcast she talks about the decline of London's bus service, antisocial cycling and the transport committee's recent intervention over fare dodging - an issue that has been exploited by right-wing politicians as part of a larger negative narrative about the capital. And with London Underground strikes imminent, she draws on her experience working for trade unions to offer some thoughts about relations between the Tube unions and management.

For more top coverage of the UK capital city, read OnLondon.co.uk.
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FAQs about True London:

How many episodes does True London have?

The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.