The Croydon Insider, our monthly news podcast that delves behind the headlines, is available FREE to all reader this month, as a special, unrepeatable offer.

Our podcast is premium content that is usually only available to paid-up subscribers, who pay just £5 per month to support Inside Croydon’s independent and investigative journalism.

But for May 2024, anyone can plug in and listen, via our Patreon page (click here) or if they visit Inside Croydon’s Spotify page.

As with all episodes of the Croydon Insider, our panel of guests is made up of Inside Croydon’s loyal readers.

• They discuss the London Elections, Susan Hall and “the Croydon effect” on the results locally.
• They also look into why so many younger voters are completely disengaged by politics, politicians and the political process.
• Then there’s ULEZ and the “cesspit of racism” secretive Facebook groups that suddenly vanished once the Tories failed to win the London mayoralty.
• There’s the crisis on Croydon’s trams’ rolling stock, and how this is hitting New Addington hardest.
• There’s the dodgy-looking planning application for 220 new homes in Purley town centre, with none of the flats in this massive “older living” complex being affordable, as required by planning laws.
• And there’s Stormzy’s football endeavours, with promotion for his football club in the same week that he opened an impressive community centre in Selhurst.

Our lively discussion programme is an Under The Flyover podcast, provided as premium content usually exclusively to paying subscribers to Inside Croydon – whose £5 per month subscriptions help keep Croydon’s only independent platform for investigative journalism digging into the stories that those in power definitely don’t want you to know about.

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