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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

On my way, Clacton.

Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Sands End has 3 wonderful H&F Labour candidates: Ken Jemedafe, Dr Roseanne Meacher and David Morris. Roseanne dedicated her working life to caring for people at Charing Cross Hospital. Hear her story here …

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Roseanne Meacher NHS

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My thoughts are with the victims of this latest antisemitic terrorist attack in Golders Green. In Hammersmith & Fulham, our message to Jewish people is we stand with you and will always face down antisemites and the hatemongers who seek to harm our treasured Jewish citizens.

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Absolutely the right way forward for Britain. Thank you @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social Being in the EU would bring greater prosperity to the UK’s towns and cities, it would strengthen our security and offer all our citizens a much brighter future. The Brexit decade damaged Britain. Let’s fix that

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Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Very pleased to have this piece by @stephencowan.bsky.social, leader of Hammersmith & Fulham Council, about how local authorities can nourish and initiate innovation, inclusive growth and change: www.onlondon.co.uk/stephen-cowa... #london

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Councils in London can be architects of economic change

Hammersmith & Fulham leader Stephen Cowan on using the council's powers and resources to nurture new forces of economic growth

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Four years ago today Putin invaded Ukraine. I wrote this then and stand by every word now. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

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Our solidarity with the Ukrainian people

Weekly briefing from Cllr Stephen Cowan, Leader of Hammersmith & Fulham.

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Can government democratise the new opportunities being generated in high growth future industries? Local government can. Starting with our young people, @hflabour.bsky.social developed and launched the H&F Pathway Bond. Here’s my article in the London Evening Standard. #TomorrowMadeHere

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Every young person in London deserves a pathway to a brighter future

Most of the business community thinks that AI will displace a large number of existing jobs

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Finding a pathway to a brilliant future is the goal of every young person. @hflabour.bsky.social run @hfcouncil.bsky.social have pioneered the unique Pathway Bond which offers the experiences and networks that are crucial to success. More here:

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H&F Leader Stephen Cowan introduces the Upstream Pathway Bond at Fulham Cross Girls School

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It is and has always been incumbent on all free people to stand with those protesting for freedom #IranProtests2026

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

So sorry to learn of the death of Eva Schloss whom I met 20 years ago when I helped organise performances of Then They Came For Me for H&F school children. Eva bravely answered questions about antisemitism and the Holocaust. Her message that we must be responsible for the society we form lives on.

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Anne Frank stepsister and Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss dies aged 96

The king, who danced with Anne Frank’s stepsister in 2022, said he and Queen Camilla ‘admired her deeply’

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Today, as the Jewish community begins to celebrate Chanukah, the thoughts and prayers of everyone in Hammersmith & Fulham is with the victims and loved ones of the antisemitic terrorist attack in Sydney, Australia. www.lbhf.gov.uk/news/2025/12...

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Statement from H&F Leader Stephen Cowan on the Bondi Beach attack

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🎙️The Story of EdCity is a story of @hflabour.bsky.social council and @arkschools.bsky.social transforming lives 🚀 Thank you @theimpactequation.bsky.social for sharing our story Listen here: 🎙️On Apple | podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... 🎙️On Spotify | open.spotify.com/episode/0kh0...

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Our unique H&F Pathway Bond is a new @hflabour.bsky.social innovation giving thousands of our young people clear pathways to the brightest possible futures Thank you to all our amazing local businesses for signing up #ItTakesAVillageToRaiseAChild #PathwayBond

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H&F Pathway Bond | Lily's journey from Hammersmith Academy to L'Oreal UK and Ireland

YouTube video by Hammersmith & Fulham Council

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

My thoughts are with those who lost their lives, those who were injured and with their loved ones following the vile terror attack at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester today - on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. We stand in solidarity with Britain’s Jewish community.

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

With Putin’s war still raging in Ukraine and Russian incursions into NATO airspace, our armed forces remind us that our free and democratic way of life has always been contested and will always need to be defended share.google/YPpVMSpzOC79...

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Weekly Briefing from Cllr Stephen Cowan, Leader of Hammersmith & Fulham

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Grateful to have such an amazing Upstream London Advisory Board which met today. Since launching our industrial strategy in 2017, Hammersmith & Fulham has: 🚀 Won £6billion of growth investment 🚀 Curated over 13,000 STEM³ jobs 🚀 Produced more spin-out start-ups than anywhere else in the UK.

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Octopus founder Greg Jackson joins board of growth advisory body

Body brings together academia, business and local government to work on plans to deliver that all important growth in H&F

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Very sad to learn of the death of Pope Francis. I admired him greatly. His emphasis on care for the marginalised and compassion for all defined his leadership. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

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Pope Francis dies at 88, the Vatican says

The pontiff had recently had a lengthy stay in a Rome hospital suffering from double pneumonia. #EuropeNews

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Sadiq Khan @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A new youth mobility scheme with the EU would boost economic growth and provide exciting opportunities for young people. At a time of so much global uncertainty deepening our partnership with EU partners is a win-win for our growth and prosperity. www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...

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Sadiq Khan: Here’s one thing to get us closer to Europe – and a post-Trump bump

A new youth mobility scheme will bring the UK and the EU some much needed connection – and a shot in the arm for business, too, writes London Mayor Sadiq Khan

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Sadiq Khan @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

New research shows that Islamophobic and racist abuse has surged online. Here's just a snapshot my team has put together of the kinds of messages I receive on a daily basis. I highlight this because I'm worried about the impact on young people. A thread 🧵

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Here’s the Better Places podcast interviewing, er, me. It was a pleasure to chat with Nick Dines about how H&F Labour has worked with our partners to transform our borough into an inclusive global economic hotspot in the new industries that are quickly reshaping the modern world.

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Cllr Stephen Cowan: Hammersmith and Fulham’s Industrial Strategy

Podcast Episode · Better Places · 26/03/2025 · 48m

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The Islamophobic abuse that our Mayor @SadiqKhan faces simply because of his faith and identity will never be tolerated. Upset to learn that this has doubled in the last year. Urgent action is needed to target and stop such unacceptable behaviour. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Islamophobic posts about Sadiq Khan more than double in a year, analysis shows

Most Islamophobic content referring to London mayor, a prominent voice against online abuse, was on X

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Here, the @financialtimes.com considers how H&F Labour is leading one of the first councils in Britain to deploy sophisticated AI technologies to crack down on crime. www.ft.com/content/29af...

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London expands CCTV network in ‘tech race against crime’

Councils rush to tool up with AI cameras as police grapple with surge in street crime

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

@jimrobbins.bsky.social hit the ground running when he was elected to lead Swindon’s renaissance in 2023. Testament to that is this amazing Parliamentary event launching Heart of Swindon. More on that inspirational vision here: www.swindon.gov.uk/download/dow...

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Here’s an article on how the combination of ‘entrepreneurial municipal government’ and world-leading academia offers opportunities for placed-based tech-led economic growth across the UK. labourlist.org/2025/02/grow...

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GDP: ‘The PM’s tech-led growth plan is vital. But councils can innovate too’ – LabourList

The front row of tech titans at the Trump inauguration was, among many other things, a sign of US technological supremacy - one of the…

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Sadiq Khan @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The far-right are sowing fear and division across the globe. Progressives must act by tackling online hate, challenging extremist rhetoric, and proving democracy can deliver for all. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This is my three-point plan for standing up to the far right and the billionaire bullies | Sadiq Khan

Putting pressure on social media companies to tackle hate and misinformation is a start, but there’s more that the centre left can do, writes Sadiq Khan

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Thank you BBC for this fine article about the £6billion inclusive economic growth curated by H&F Labour’s Upstream London, industrial strategy www.bbc.com/news/article...

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White City: Billions of pounds invested into Upstream project

How a pub chat led to an area in west London being transformed into a technology and business quarter.

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James Tapper @jamestapper.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Personal care is free in Scotland but all of England is means-tested. All of England? Not quite. One London borough also does it and they’re just completed their 10 year anniversary. So how is it going? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Is this the way to fix social care in England?

As yet another review is launched, a single council is offering an alternative to rationing support for the most needy

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Today’s Observer reporting on the 10th year of H&F Labour’s free adult social care policy: “But she is lucky enough to live in a London borough where she doesn’t need to choose. Hammersmith and Fulham is the only English council where, as in Scotland, personal care is free to anyone who needs it.”

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Is this the way to fix social care in England?

As yet another review is launched, a single council is offering an alternative to rationing support for the most needy

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

It’s 3 weeks since the second chapter of #UpstreamLondon launched. Building on the £6bn of investment and 13,000 STEM³ jobs curated by our 2017 industrial strategy, It looks to shape a future that improves peoples' lives better than ever before. #InclusiveGrowth www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkPD...

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H&F leader Cllr Stephen Cowan launches next phase of Upstream London industrial strategy

YouTube video by Hammersmith & Fulham Council

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Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @stephencowan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Our vision ten years ago was to create an inclusive global economic hotspot in the ‘long cycle’ industries of the future. This video sets out how far we’ve come: youtu.be/8b6kH-xYqq4?... #EconomicGrowth #PathwayBond #UpstreamLondon #WestTechCorridor Thank you to all who contributed to our film.

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Upstream London: Training the workforce of tomorrow, today

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Jim Robbins @jimrobbins.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Great to be at the launch of the Hammersmith & Fulham Industrial Strategy - Upstream London. Hearing from the inspirational @stephencowan.bsky.social and Baroness Taylor of Stevenage setting out the ambition! Plenty of lessons for Swindon to learn… delighted to be a partner.

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Hammersmith & Fulham Council @hfcouncil.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

📷 It’s launch day #UpstreamLondon 📷 We're delighted to launch Upstream London, the next phase of our mission to create inclusive ECONOMIC growth for all. With H&F Leader @stephencowan.bsky.social, MHCLG minister Baroness Taylor, and President of Imperial College London Hugh Brady.

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Hammersmith & Fulham Council @hfcouncil.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🌍Lead the change you want to see in H&F! Apply now to become a H&F Climate Champion and get free expert training, project support, and mentoring to launch your own environmental initiative. No experience needed! Apply by Dec 5: www.lbhf.gov.uk/environment/...

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