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How very interesting that a complaint has been made to chief executive of Harrow Council about the conduct of last cabinet meeting and the leader of the council who was chairing it, knowing well that the chief executive has no jurisdiction over either of these matters. Also interesting that while the call out by aContinue reading “Last cabinet meeting caused ‘storm in teacup’!”

While Harrow primary schools are doing well against the national benchmarks overall, there are significant variations in the performance of the schools. The primary (key stage 2) results announced this week show big gaps. For example, 90 percent of pupils meeting the expected standard at a top school and only 28 percent at the lowerContinue reading “Harrow primary schools – mixed performance!”

The rift between Theresa May and Boris Johnson became obvious as Downing Street said that foreign secretary Boris Johnson was not representing the government’s views on Saudi Arabia when he recently accused the state. Both of them have been in Harrow to support unpopular Tory group leadership that has failed in making any election gainsContinue reading “Left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing!”

Harrow is well known for its greenery which can only be good but with the greenery comes the need to maintain good environment – for example, to keep public footpaths hazard free in leafing season when the dead leaves make walking surfaces slippery. The Harrow council seems to be doing reasonably well in clearing leavesContinue reading “Dead leaves!”

Buckingham College in Hindes Road suddenly and mysteriously closed last year. The school moved to this prime location in 1937 with 36 boys on the roll. Before closing, the student population of this private school was mostly Asian. The independent education provider served pupils well before closing – the secondary school achieved high GCSE resultsContinue reading “Once seat of learning, now an eyesore”

Irrespective of the flow of the Harrow cabinet meeting on 13 October 2016 and how the Tory opposition leader Cllr Hall feels about the council’s regeneration project scheme, her personal attack on the leader of the council Cllr Sachin Shah is unacceptable. Responding to Cllr Hall’s comment about Cllr Sachin Shah taking his shoes offContinue reading “Hall now relies on cheap personal attack”

It can only be good that the electronic media provides more and better means for the public to know their elected representatives and hold them to account on matters like MP-specific income and expenses, and the use of their position. In Harrow, Harrow East constituency is well known for headlines concerning MP expenses. For example,Continue reading “Come clean Bob Blackman MP!”

Following the EU referendum, the schools are caught up with the politics of Bexit by the implications of school census, immigration, migration and English as an Additional Language (EAL). Many schools, including in Harrow, have started collecting data on pupils’ country of birth, nationality and level of English proficiency through the school census in lineContinue reading “Politics of Bexit hitting schools”

Many feel that Tories under Councillor Hall’s leadership are not effective opposition in holding the Harrow council administration to account, even in matters like the state of cleanliness in the borough, an area that Cllr Hall shadows. What is also concerning is that Cllr Hall appears to have no confidence in and iffy working relationshipsContinue reading “Hall suffers fresh blow”