Noah Vickers

'A triumph': Baroness Blackstone reviews 'Shifty' Looking for a summer recess watch? Waste no time and go straight to Adam Curtis’ documentary series

"It is not often possible to recommend a TV series as compelling as Adam Curtis’ Shifty"

📺 Baroness Tessa Blackstone reviews 'Shifty' | #BBCiPlayer #shifty
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Susan Hall To Face No Action After Sharing AI Image Of Sadiq Khan Drowning Susan Hall, leader of the Conservatives in City Hall, will face no disciplinary action after sharing an AI-generated image of Sadiq Khan drowning, ...

Susan Hall, leader of the Conservatives in City Hall, will face no disciplinary action after sharing an AI-generated image of Sadiq Khan drowning

The post sparked outrage in London Labour, @noahvickers.bsky.social reports

Susan Hall To Face No Action After Sharing AI Image Of Sadiq Khan Drowning Susan Hall, leader of the Conservatives in City Hall, will face no disciplinary action after sharing an AI-generated image of Sadiq Khan drowning, ...

Khan has faced threats to his life throughout his mayoralty and requires 24hr police protection as a result.

The Jo Cox Foundation has rebuked Hall, saying politicians should "set an example" with "the behaviour they demonstrate both online and offline"

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Susan Hall To Face No Action After Sharing AI Image Of Sadiq Khan Drowning Susan Hall, leader of the Conservatives in City Hall, will face no disciplinary action after sharing an AI-generated image of Sadiq Khan drowning, ...

Hall is leader of the London Assembly's Conservative group. The image she quote-posted in April shows the mayor struggling to stay afloat in water and was originally captioned by its author: “What would you throw to save Khan?”

Hall replied: "A ULEZ camera...."

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Susan Hall To Face No Action After Sharing AI Image Of Sadiq Khan Drowning Susan Hall, leader of the Conservatives in City Hall, will face no disciplinary action after sharing an AI-generated image of Sadiq Khan drowning, ...

NEW: Former London Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall will face no disciplinary action after sharing on X an AI-generated image of Sadiq Khan drowning.

The monitoring officer found Hall did not break the GLA code of conduct and will not investigate further

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Listen carefully: How AI is changing Britain's GP surgeries Does AI hold the key to fixing our health service? Noah Vickers reports from the ‘wild west’ of GP surgeries getting to grips with the technology

Listen carefully: How AI is changing Britain's GP surgeries

Listen carefully: How AI is changing Britain's GP surgeries Does AI hold the key to fixing our health service? Noah Vickers reports from the ‘wild west’ of GP surgeries getting to grips with the technology

"The fact that this is happening tells you very much about the wild west that we’re in... It does feel a little bit like a free-for-all."

My latest @thehousemag.bsky.social piece examines how AI is changing Britain's GP surgeries - from consultation to triage.

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💊The NHS is battling "medieval" levels of untreated illness in some of Britain's poorest communities – at a cost to the health service of about £50bn a year, or the same as the defence budget.

My big read from Barrow, Blackpool, Burnley and Blackburn:

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Why Denis Villeneuve is the perfect director for James Bond It was not the James Bond news we were hoping for. There was no announcement of a new film, nor an answer to the decade-plus old question of which actor will next don the tuxedo.

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First column I've written for LBC

Commons Leader Lucy Powell: 'We Have To Ask Which Traditions Serve A Purpose In The Modern Age' She arrived promising to drag Parliament into the modern age. A year in, Lucy Powell tells Noah Vickers she wants to widen participation and ditch ...

Here's the full Lucy Powell interview, which gave people a right old fit of the vapours over the weekend

Commons Leader Lucy Powell: 'We Have To Ask Which Traditions Serve A Purpose In The Modern Age' She arrived promising to drag Parliament into the modern age. A year in, Lucy Powell tells Noah Vickers she wants to widen participation and ditch ...

NEW: My @thehousemag.bsky.social cover interview with Commons Leader Lucy Powell. We discuss:

💬 Getting rid of 'arcane' language
🕹️ Whether the Commons needs electronic voting
💰 Are MPs paid the right amount?
🌹 Will she run for Greater Manchester mayor?

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Parliament’s ‘confusing’ language could get ‘inclusive’ makeover The public do not understand terms such as ‘ten-minute rule bill’ or parliamentary procedures, and they should be modernised, a Commons committee has heard

NEW: A sneak preview in @thetimes.com of my interview with Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell. 📰

Full interview coming on Monday in @thehousemag.bsky.social 👇

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Absent Minds: How To Solve The Crisis Of School Absenteeism? Absenteeism is undermining the education of children in poorer areas, including those that do attend regularly. Noah Vickers reports on why so many...

My latest report for @thehousemag.bsky.social explores the government's attempts at tackling school absenteeism.

But are poor attendance rates, in the long shadow of the Covid lockdowns, simply a symptom of longer-term failure to properly support our children?

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The House Magazine’s Lord Cormack Fellowship The Lord Cormack Fellowship is a month-long paid fellowship with Parliament’s magazine, The House.  The fellowship aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to political journalism, magazine produc...

🚨Applications are open for a month-long paid fellowship with Parliament’s magazine, The House.

🗞️ The scheme is open to anyone over the age of 18

🗞️You will be paid a London Living Wage & provided with accommodation

🗞️ Any questions, drop me a message!
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London Labour MPs Urge Rachel Reeves To Not Deal The Capital A 'Major Blow' In Her Spending Review London Labour MPs have publicly expressed concern over suggestions that the capital is set to miss out on key funding at Wednesday's Spending Revie...

Ahead of the spending review announcement, @matildamartin.bsky.social, Noah Vickers & I spoke to London Labour MPs who urged the Chancellor to not deal a "major blow" to the capital

But non-London mayors pushed back, with one source close to a mayor saying London had "always had special treatment"

London Labour MPs Urge Rachel Reeves To Not Deal The Capital A 'Major Blow' In Her Spending Review London Labour MPs have publicly expressed concern over suggestions that the capital is set to miss out on key funding at Wednesday's Spending Revie...

Two Labour MPs representing seats in London have told PoliticsHome that it would be "shocking" and a "major blow" if reported Spending Review decisions relating to the capital come to pass on Wednesday

Report @matildamartin.bsky.social, @zoecrowther.bsky.social and @noahvickers.bsky.social

Hammersmith Bridge: Demolition among proposals made by UK government The idea was among six put forward to resolve the structure's poor state of repair.

Also something tells me Hammersmith Bridge might not be reopening to motor vehicles (or even just buses) any time soon. It's been closed to them since April 2019.

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Wonder how many years south east Londoners will have to make do with a 'Bakerloop' bus instead of the Bakerloo line extension, in light of this morning's reporting

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The House Magazine’s Lord Cormack Fellowship The Lord Cormack Fellowship is a month-long paid fellowship with Parliament’s magazine, The House.  The fellowship aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to political journalism, magazine produc...

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Sadiq Khan's drug policy review is interesting because it was a 2021 manifesto pledge made in an era of endless Tory rule and it's now been published under a Labour government where.... Yvette Cooper's home office immediately rejected its main recommendation.

Christopher Isherwood stayed in an apartment owned by the institute and shares a few memories from it - incl the book burning and some memories of Hirschfeld - in Christopher and His Kind

158!

YouTube video by Limmy I'm struggling

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Can Labour Fix England's Water Shortage Problem? England hasn’t built a new reservoir in more than 30 years but 10 are now promised – and even they may not be enough. Noah Vickers reports on the l...

My debut in @thehousemag.bsky.social 👇

Resisting the urge to call it a "deep dive" into reservoirs...

Many thanks to @jess-n1.bsky.social, Sir Roger Gale MP and @juliabuckley.bsky.social for sharing their insights

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🚨 Today was my last day as local democracy reporter at @thelondonstandard.bsky.social, after more than two very enjoyable years covering Sadiq Khan and the London Assembly.

Excited to be staying on the politics beat by joining @thehousemag.bsky.social as a staff writer, starting in June! 📝

Developer applies to slash affordable housing at north London scheme Council is told developer faces ‘commercial risk’ if they deliver all of the affordable homes they had said they would

Developer building hundreds of new properties next to Camden Market wants to provide less than half the amount of affordable housing it said it would two years ago, citing economic challenges. City Hall says it is "robustly interrogating" the evidence...

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And this map, also sourced through FOI requests, shows how temporary accommodation in some boroughs is home to people almost 100 years old

FOI requests by @citizensuk.org show just how long some families and individuals have been waiting in temporary accommodation

'Dire realities' of London's temporary accommodation crisis exposed Report finds some children are spending their whole childhoods in temporary accommodation, which can also be home to 97-year-old pensioners

Horrendous findings in this research from @citizensuk.org - more than 70,000 households now living in temporary accommodation across London. Some children spend their whole childhoods there, living alongside homeless pensioners well into their 90s in some cases

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Kew Gardens expert urges a new approach to looking after trees London is the one of the world's largest urban forests, containing an estimated 8.4 million trees.

Story picked up by BBC London:

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