Murad Qureshi

The Indian Supreme court landmark ruling this year, legalising gay sex overturns an colonial-era law otherwise known as Section 377, illustrates well the pernicious impact still made by colonial laws in many…

While the world has been rallied to the moral and humanitarian case to support the Rohingyas in their flight from ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar state and their plight in…

l am glad to hear of the suggestion to Paint the Town blue with women’s plaques by Dame Judi ( 21st November 2018 ) but you need not just do it via English Heritage.  You can do…

With the pedestrianisation of Oxford St stopped by the council and Cross rail delayed for more than a year, TfL can concentrate on getting their proposed changes for users in…

Major changes are being proposed on Central London bus routes.  If you still want the 205 bus to stop in front of Marylebone Railway station, please make your views clear…

While some Councils in London like RBKC want more powers to get empty homes back in use to house social tenants and acknowledge some 621 long term empties within its…

While Towers are going up in City of London ( check out the Principal Tower ), it was good to see RBKC overturn an application for two Towers to replace…

Flats over the station is not a new idea at all as the Evening Standard’s headlines and editorial would suggest last week. You only have to look above Baker St…

Recently the BBC broadcasted  Contract – Marble Arch to Edgware where the “poet & hack” John Betjeman ( Poet Laureate of the UK 1972-1984 ) goes down the Edgware Rd during…

Last week we saw two pet rescues in London – one of a terrier in Maida Vale and a parrot in Edmonton – much to the relief of their pet…