There’s a taxi pick up point at the bottom of Euston Station that cabbies call ‘the gas chamber’. The taxi rank marshall there wears a mask and the area is an asthma sufferers’ nightmare. In all the recent discussions about the appalling impacts of air pollution, the health of cab drivers is rarely raised, but [...]

Yesterday, friends and families of road victims stood in the slushy snow to launch a new campaign, See Me Save Me, which is dedicated to reducing lorry danger to cyclists and pedestrians. It is coordinated by RoadPeace, the excellent never-well-enough-funded national charity for road crash victims and their families. As we stood around the ghost [...]

I recently met with an inspiring group of people from Young Minds UK to discuss their ‘State of Mind’ manifesto and ways in which I can get involved as a mayoral candidate. Young Minds is a UK based charity which is committed to improving the emotional well being and mental health of children and young [...]

Soon after I was elected to the London Assembly, I had to give up going on the Sunday morning tea and sandwich runs with the Simon Community which I’d been doing for 18 months because life was just too hectic. I’d been going with the Simon because their ethos was so inclusive, often using ex [...]

 
This morning I went to New Cross rail station to mark 100 days to go until the London Mayoral Election. With the big day fast approaching it is important to get out on the streets and tell Londoners why voting Green will lead to a fairer, safer and greener city.
 

 I took this opportunity to talk [...]

During the rush hour on Wednesday morning, I was at Wanstead tube station to re-iterate our pledge that a Green City Hall would support small businesses and the everyday Londoner. I joined Haroon Saad in distributing £250k Boris banknotes to highlight the current Mayor’s relationship with the City of London and Big Businesses. Haroon was also there to launch [...]

 Last Wednesday I met Peter Krakowiak outside Tottenham Town Hall to launch his campaign to become the London Assembly member for Enfield and Haringey.
This constituency encompasses areas of north-east London with great disparity in wealth and the child poverty figures recently announced by End Child Poverty highlight this further. In both Enfield and Haringey, a [...]

I joined Green Party activists at Highbury and Islington tube station on Tuesday morning as part of a Londonwide day of action for supporting the city’s small businesses. It was great fun, but with a very serious purpose.
We were distributing £250k Boris banknotes to highlight the current Mayor’s relationship with the City of London which comes at [...]

Last night I joined around 200 cyclists and pedestrians at a direct action event in King’s Cross, organised by Bikes Alive. I strongly support their demand to change the balance of power on London’s roads. For far too long, priority has been given to the motorised transport rather than the safety of pedestrians and cyclists.
The [...]

Making London a fair pay city is a practical method for reducing the gross inequality in our city and one that Ealing and Hillingdon candidate Mike Harling strongly supports. To launch his candidacy, I met him outside Ealing Broadway station where he highlighted his commitment to the 10:1 campaign.

As an Ealing-based social worker he’s more [...]