More on the cyber-attack on RBKC Council in November 2025. I’ve been trying to find out how on earth the cyber-attack in November against RBKC Council actually  happened. I heard there had been recent confidential briefings to two committees, both of which I sat on for many of my 20 years on the Council. As Leader of the Independent Group on the Council (until 7 May anyway) I imagined I’d be privy to this information. I asked nicely. I was […]

In the run-up to Council elections, a number of outrageous RBKC Tory claims must be challenged. The temerity of the Council, claiming in electoral literature that RBKC is ‘Britain’s most efficient Council’, is a total disgrace. Let’s look briefly at precisely who has stated this: ‘iMPOWER’ who released this so called ‘independent study’ is a management consultant who use ‘theory of change, influence, and applied behavioural science’ (nudge theory I imagine) to create ‘change’ and cut costs. A few brief […]

In the days and weeks after the Grenfell Tower fire, North Ken was flooded with volunteers. Some came to join existing local groups working on the ground, ensuring people were safe, had somewhere to sleep, something to eat, someone to care as they waited, traumatised, for the worst news of their lives. Some came with specific skills, organising  the vast and staggeringly generous inflow of water, food, clothes, nappies, bedding – so much that we ran out of space to […]

Since resigning from the Labour Party in April 2023 I’ve been invited numerous times to join other parties. In the past year or so, the Green Party, Your Party, and the various associated groups and campaigns such as DemSoc, Rise, Transform etc. So far I’ve resisted. Then last month I was invited to join Reform. Here is an extract of the email I received: ‘While researching RBKC wards to decide where to stand, I found your profile, and it immediately […]