A row has broken out over the future of an important Caribbean community centre in north London which has fallen into serious disrepair after years of neglect by its landlord, the local council.
Stewart Wellington, whose parents arrived in the UK from Jamaica in the 1950s as part of the Windrush generation, has drawn up multimillion-pound plans to demolish it and start again, giving it a bigger home within an ambitious scheme that will not cost the taxpayer a penny, while instilling pride in local people.
A Haringey councillor admitted its failure to maintain the building but insisted that the council itself plans to bring it back to life instead.
Women have been left unprotected because courts cannot attach powers of arrest to non-molestation orders
Karen Ingala Smith, co-creator of the Femicide Census, which analyses the deaths of women at the hands of men. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer
Karen Ingala Smith, co-creator of the Femicide Census, which analyses the deaths of women at the hands of men. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer
Sun 14 Mar 2021 01.00 EST
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A simple change in the law to reduce domestic killings – half happening around separation – would be to let family courts attach powers of arrest again to non-molestation orders (“We’ve ignored the grim toll of femicide for too long,” Editorial). A misguided criminal law prevented judges from attaching these when breach of such orders became a criminal offence in 2007.
Cal Flyn’s fascinating feature on the implications of falling birth rates failed to mention the obvious, but still politically controversial, panacea – immigration (“ As birth rates fall, animals prowl in our abandoned ‘ghost villages’”, Focus). Sooner or later, far-sighted governments need to realise that the only way to replace their lost younger generations is to encourage immigration. Such population movements will provide younger workers to.