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half marathon debut of 1:07:16 She’ll be looking for her first victory in a Cross Country Tour race this year following a third-place finish in Elgoibar back in January and a runner-up spot in Atapuerca last month Sarah Chelangat will be aiming to become the first Ugandan woman to win in Allonnes She holds national records for 3000m (8:32.53) 10,000m (30:24.04) and the half marathon (1:07:59) and finished sixth at this year’s World Cross all of which suggests she’ll be Nawowuna’s toughest opposition The Kazakh runner will be making her first cross-country appearance since 2021 when she won in Seville The Tunisian record-holder is a two-time world finalist at her specialist discipline but also possesses the versatility to perform well at cross country France’s 2013 European cross-country champion Sophie Duarte French half marathon record-holder Mekdes Woldu Portuguese half marathon specialist Monica Silva and Algeria’s Nawal Yahi are also in the line-up The men’s race last year was much closer than the women’s with Samuel Kibet winning by just four seconds from Yann Schrub Both men will be back in Allonnes to renew their rivalry Kibet won the 2022 world mountain-running title then went on to place 30th at the 2023 World Cross After his runner-up finish in Allonnes last year Schrub went on to win the European cross-country title This weekend’s race will be his first cross-country outing since his continental victory he took silver over 10,000m at the European Championships He’ll be joined on the startline by compatriot Jimmy Gressier setting French records over 5000m (12:54.97) and 10,000m (26:58.67) as well as a European record at 10km (27:07) The Kenyan clocked a 10km PB of 27:21 in Madrid in June for prodigious Ethiopian teenager Kuma Girma who ran 13:03.37 for 5000m at the age of 17 last year Other contenders include European steeplechase champion Alexis Miellet European steeplechase silver medallist Djilali Bedrani European indoor 3000m finalist Bastien Augusto and French short course cross-country champion Nicolas Daru Grace Nawowuna will look to successfully defend her title at Allonnes Cross Country in France on November 17 but faces stiff opposition on the World Athletics Cross Country Tour Gold meeting Nawowuna, who finished fourth at the 2023 World Cross Country Championships was a convincing winner in Allonnes last year Nageeye went toe-to-toe with Chebet before outckicking him in the final 400 meters to win the race in 2:07:39 This year’s race has been increased from 6.98km to 7.61km given she excels over 10,000m on the track as shown by her PB of 29:47.42 and recently made a promising half marathon debut of 1:07:16 She’ll be looking for her first victory in a Cross Country Tour race this year, following a third-place finish in Elgoibar back in January and a runner-up spot in Atapuerca last month Sarah Chelangat will be aiming to become the first Ugandan woman to win in Allonnes and finished sixth at this year’s World Cross all of which suggests she’ll be Nawowuna’s toughest opposition Nawowuna faces competition from Burundian Francine Niyomukunzi who is in fine form France’s 2013 European cross-country champion Sophie Duarte and Algeria’s Nawal Yahi are also in the line-up Former champion has hailed Evra ahead of his MMA debut Paris Saint-Germain's top scoring forward is a doubt for the Champions League semi-final second leg clash against Arsenal FIFA has relegated one African club over match-fixing allegations Time and where to watch Nigeria's Efe Ajagba take on Congo's Martin Bakole in a fight for African boxing king Time and where to watch Flying Eagles of Nigeria's 2nd U20 AFCON group game against Young Atlas Lions of Morocco Former England player who rejected the chance to represent the Nigerian national team now wants to replace Eric Chelle See what fans are saying about the robbery of Nigerian boxer Efe Ajagba against Congolese star Martin Bakole as Battle of Africa ends in a draw Artificial intelligence weighs in on the speculations surrounding Victor Osimhen's future Some of the world's most famous athletes traded jerseys for jaw-dropping couture at the 2025 Met Gala The gorgeous red carpet looks of Olympic champions Sha'Carri Richardson Here's how world 100m champion and Paris Olympics silver medallist Sha'Carri Richardson showed up at the 2025 Met Gala Paris Olympics bronze medallist Melissa Jefferson-Wooden was surprised by her cousin serving in the US Army who flew in from Korea to watch her become Grand Slam Track champion in Miami Nigeria's Star Girl Favour Ofili made her long-awaited debut at the Grand Slam Track in Miami and earned herself a whooping sum of $25,000 For the second consecutive Diamond League meet Akani Simbine took down a strong field to win the men's 100m event at the Shanghai Diamond League Jamaican track legend Usain Bolt finally has a response on the viral conversation of racing Kylian Mbappe and Gareth Bale as fastest footballers Melissa Jefferson-Wooden wants to write her name in the history books by being among the best following her impressive run at the Grand Slam Track in Miami Olympic 100m bronze medallist Melissa Jefferson-Wooden clocked a stunning 10.75s (2.4) to take the 100m win at Grand Slam Track in Miami Olympic champion Masai Russell clocked a new American Record and second-fastest time in history to win the women's 100mH event at the Grand Slam Track in Miramar World 100m champion Sha'Carri Richardson featured in a WHOOP star-studded ad alongside Liverpool football captain Virgil van Dijk and other sporting stars Former world champion Tobi Amusan is listed to compete at the Shanghai Diamond League where she'll be gunning to return to new ways Preview of men's 100m event at Shanghai Diamond League featuring Akani Simbine Olympic champion Gabby Thomas made a surprising reference with ATHLOS over Grand Slam Track as 'changing the game' after World Athletics Ultimate Championship big money reveal Usain Bolt opened up on his first first stardom experience and how he would talk to his kids on greatness The World Athletics Ultimate Championship isn't just going to be a gathering of stars but the champions are set to split a whooping prize purse of $10 million when the GWFF Best First Feature Award was introduced the Berlinale has been even more committed to supporting the next generation of filmmakers donated by the GWFF (Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Film- und Fernsehrechten) a society dedicated to safeguarding film and television rights The prize money is to be split between the producer and the director of the winning film the director will be awarded with a high-quality viewfinder as both a useful instrument and memorable trophy 19 directorial feature film debuts from the sections Competition Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino are nominated for the GWFF Best First Feature Award first studied film criticism at the Egyptian Cinema Writers & Critics Association and then film at the American University in Cairo before beginning her career as a director she made her feature film debut two years later with Villa 69 a Berlinale World Cinema Fund funding project she was invited to the official selection of the festival in Cannes in 2020 and presented the film at the Berlinale Summer Special in 2021 which also won an award at the Tribeca Film Festival represented Egypt in the Oscar race in 2021 Judith Revault d’Allonnes is a French programmer and has been head of cinema in the Department of Culture and Creation at the Centre Pompidou since September 2022 She joined the institution in 2000 as a programmer and has accompanied the most important figures of modern and contemporary cinema through retrospectives and exhibitions Judith Revault d’Allonnes also contributes to magazines notably as a member of the editorial board of “Trafic – Almanach de cinéma” and to collective works She published an essay on Leos Carax’s Holy Motors (Yellow Now 2016) and the first French-language book devoted to Kelly Reichardt: “Kelly Reichardt l’Amérique retraversée” (De l’Incidence Cyril Schäublin was born in Zurich in 1984 and initially studied Mandarin and film at the Zhong Xi Academy in Beijingbefore completing his degree in directing at the DFFB in Berlin Schäublin’s short films have been screened at numerous festivals worldwide His feature-length film debut Those who are fine celebrated its premiere in 2017 at the Locarno Film Festival and went on to win many awards including the award for Best Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival which celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale and received the Award for Best Director in Encounters and was presented with the FIPRESCI Award at the Viennale 20.000 especies de abejas (20,000 Species of Bees) by Estibaliz Urresola SolagurenDisco Boy by Giacomo Abbruzzese Adentro mío estoy bailando (The Klezmer Project) by Leandro Koch Paloma SchachmannKletka ishet ptitsu (The Cage Is Looking for a Bird) by Malika MusaevaMummola 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associations have been closed in the country since President Emmanuel Macron took office Noting that 92 of the 2,500 mosques in the country were closed as a result of inspections the residence permits of 36,000 foreigners have been canceled on the grounds that these individuals threaten public order France’s highest constitutional authority approved a controversial “anti-separatism” law that has been criticized for singling out Muslims The bill was passed by the National Assembly in July despite strong opposition from both rightist and leftist lawmakers The government claims that the legislation is intended to strengthen France's secular system but critics believe that it restricts religious freedom and marginalizes Muslims The bill has been criticized for targeting France's Muslim community – the largest in Europe with 3.35 million members – and imposing restrictions on many aspects of their lives The law allows officials to intervene in mosques and associations responsible for their 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Bill Bowden covers a variety of news for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette He has worked at the newspaper for 16 years and previously worked for both the Arkansas Democrat and Arkansas Gazette This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Material from the Associated Press is Copyright © 2025 audio and/or video material shall not be published rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use The AP will not be held liable for any delays errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing The German historian Reinhart Koselleck associated the “age of revolutions” (1750-1850) with a fracture in the social representation of time Are we currently experiencing a new fracture as suggested by our constant recourse to the word “crisis” Books & Ideas interviewed Yves Citton and Myriam Revault d’Allonnes Books & Ideas: Myriam Revault d’Allonnes quoting Rousseau (“We are approaching a state of crisis and the age of revolutions”) that the concept of “crisis,” which is frequently used to describe our own era was regularly used in the late eighteenth century did “crisis” have the same meaning as today Myriam Revault d’Allonnes: The concept of crisis entered ordinary speech only by shedding its original meaning The Greek word krisis belongs to the field of medicine It refers to the decisive moment in an uncertain process Thus a state of crisis is inseparable from the experience of time: whatever the context in which it is used It belongs to a particular regime of historicity which a crisis is uniquely suited to reveal It is precisely in the eighteenth century that “crisis” freed itself from this more limited and technical sense (which in the Middle Ages had been essentially confined to medicine) and came to the forefront of modern thought in connection with a new conception of history Its introduction into modern thinking about temporality and historicity represents a significant shift a radical negation of the old by the new in the name of a certain idea of progress Not only did the term spread and come to refer to any period of trouble and tension it was also tied to the emergence of a form of subjectivity that is sensitive to disorder and a consciousness of significant political and economic upheaval Political crises thus have a specific relationship with the forms of historical thought with which they are associated The interest of Rousseau’s thought lies in the fact that he assigns crisis a political meaning without tying it to a conception of dialectical progress It is worth recalling the entirety of the passage from which the quotation is drawn: “You trust in the present order of society without thinking that this order is itself subject to inevitable revolutions and it is impossible for you to foresee or prevent the one which may affect your children Are the blows of fate so rare that you can count on being exempted from them We are approaching a state of crisis and the age of revolutions Who can answer for what will become of you then?” This text emphasizes the unpredictability of the future the course of which can never be known in advance as well as the role of contingency in social and political conflict Would revolutions and crises—they are linked in the text—be inevitable if the social and political order were not unjust and untenable But “inevitable” does not mean “predictable,” for the future’s course is precisely not governed by the idea of infinite progress Crises are jolts or ruptures; far from being absorbable into a universal future and knowable in advance they can profoundly change history’s course The great relevance of Rousseau’s thought lies in the way it works insecurity and uncertainty into its perspective on the historical future Though crises and revolutions are fraught with often mortal risks they can also be the occasion for positive turnarounds a “crisis” reveals the future’s ambivalence and fundamental uncertainty Yet the current use of the term breaks both with the original Greek meaning of krisis as well as with the representation of the historical future that emerged in the eighteenth century crisis seems to have become our “normal” condition—a regularity that is characterized by the proliferation of uncertainties and very possibility of a solution to the crisis It is as if there was nothing left to settle or to decide since crisis has become our permanent state crisis seems to have become the milieu and norm of our lives This radical reversal is the sign of a profound transformation in our relationship to time—a relationship characterized by the future’s uncertainty but we seem to have lost our faith in the fruitfulness of temporal existence This is why the perception of a general crisis to which there is no solution is linked to a crisis in our ability to project ourselves into the future you compare the privileges of the late eighteenth century with those of today What conclusions do you draw from this comparison we have allowed an entire array of inequalities to exacerbate both within “rich” countries and at the global level the wages of Chinese laborers working in export industries are increasing rapidly systems of social insurance are being established in places like China when such statistically significant countries begin to catch up But as one sees in the case of Foxconn’s workers which are discussed at length in an article in the January 2013 issue of the Revue des Livres So despite some relatively encouraging signs from places like China it still seems to me that our period is dominated by an exacerbation of inequalities (in terms of income access to higher education and fulfilling jobs Aside from the fact that such exacerbation always has destabilizing effects the combination of unjustifiable inequalities and a globalized media sphere which bombards us with images that make these inequalities all the more glaring could force some populations into exile—all this seems to announce major violent turmoil if were are not able to get ahead of these trends and radically change our course we are indeed experiencing a “crisis of temporality.” We are witnessing the emergence over the medium term of the sufficient causes of potentially extremely violent social upheavals Yet we are incapable of collectively creating the political organizations that would forestall these catastrophic outcomes Our political temporality is out of sync with our social and environmental temporality as Hartmut Rosa demonstrated in his book Accélération (La Découverte and as I tried to explain in issue 46 of the journal Multitudes (2011) does the contemporary use of the term “crisis” refer to a reality or a new collective imaginary Yves Citton: The ways in which the word “crisis” is currently used strikes me as pretty systematically misleading The word functions as a “myth,” in every sense of the term It suggests an implicit “history”: things were good It is based on a “myth”: once the crisis that is slowing us down we’ll return once again to our usual cruising speed Herein lies the key illusion: due to the hegemony of economic thinking over our political debates a “crisis” is almost always conceived as a recession or stagnation in GDP We are in a “crisis” because GDP is not growing This blinds us to the fact that the real crisis the acceleration or deceleration of growth but with our direction: the crucial question is not whether to go faster or slower but in which direction we wish to reorient the growth of our productive forces The vast majority of contemporary discourse on the crisis is truly criminal It bears enormous responsibility for the catastrophes that await us in the future precisely because it serves to avoid the question of direction in the name of a return to acceleration (i.e. We cannot allow ourselves to take drastic measures to stop the destruction of our living environment “because of the crisis”—because the top priority must be unemployment or other such nonsense … We will start worrying about transitioning to a more sustainable way of life only once we are Besides the fact that we will not return to 6% or 8% growth is not growth or the speed at which we are moving Myriam Revault d’Allonnes: The contemporary use of the word “crisis” represents a mutation in our relationship to time but its generalization (in French) in the form of a collective singular—“la crise” (the crisis)—must be interrogated from several angles that of its appropriateness: its epistemological appropriateness The contemporary world has witnessed the unraveling of a number of modern historicity’s key features which emerged and were first deployed in the eighteenth century the “temporalization” of historical experience Because history was conceived as a process with a clear direction in which the future represented progress’ realization time was endowed with a historical quality: transformed into a dynamic force Time was the engine of still-to-be-completed history of still-to-be-accomplished political endeavors we are confronted with a process of “detemporalization.” After the collapse of the widespread belief in progress and hopes in a future teleologically oriented towards improvement we now inhabit a kind of promise-less time The image that prevails at present is that of an inchoate and indeterminate future This new way of being-in-time shapes both how society views its uncertain collective future and how individuals imagine the (equally uncertain) direction of their lives Even if some misleading uses of the word “crisis” are merely alibis (“it’s due to the crisis”) or efforts to justify policies that are incapable of addressing the explosion of inequalities and injustices it would be a mistake to dismiss crisis as a figment of the collective imagination with no grounding in reality The ubiquity of crisis testifies both to our new way of being-in-time—a new “image” of time—and a sense that politics will be defeated or prove impotent any time it confronts the speed and complexity of economic and technological forces Political action no longer takes the form of initiative It has become essentially reactive—to financial markets A distinctive characteristic of the concept of “crisis” is the tight connection it posits between objective reality and our experience of it If the idea of crisis expresses the difficulties contemporary humanity faces in defining its relation to history it does not condemn us to uncertainty or resignation The proliferation of discourses bemoaning political impotence and an impending end do not capture the full extent of our crisis’ meaning which requires us to see it not as the culmination of an inevitable process but as the starting point of a string of reversals: how can we shift from seeing a number of uncertain ideas as discredited to considering them as possible sources of objective knowledge How do we make sense of the fact that the crisis emerges ahead of itself—upstream from itself Different subjective attitudes towards the future’s uncertainty could appear one that would not be haunted by fear and insecurity An uncertain future is above all one that is not prefigured in advance the future is a problem rather than a source or instrument of hope it is because it has ceased to be desirable We confusedly project onto the future hopes and fears of all kinds From an eschatological belief in a future that exists independently of us and lies beyond humanity’s reach we turned to a conception of the future as domesticated and disciplined to a future that strikes us as exceedingly opaque does not lie in making deductions based on the presumption that history is a continuous process nor in planning the future deterministically in order to escape its unpredictable character Nor does it consist in projecting onto it an idealism that reverts to utopianism Books & Ideas: The historian Reinhart Koselleck saw a profound rupture in references to temporality among the contemporaries of the “age of revolutions.” Do you think that this shift in our relationship to time and crisis affects our understanding of revolutions Yves Citton: The word “revolution” is itself very loaded a “revolution” is something a heavenly body does when it rotates and returns to its starting point our political tradition has a habit of treating revolutions as absolutes: to “have a revolution” is to change in a sudden led us to believe that revolution was indeed possible: tyrants were forced out of power the French cabinet ministers who supported them were shown to be the buffoons that they are and forces that had previously been condemned to the opposition (in addition to suffering torture and prison) seized control of government palaces Yet this raises as many questions as it solves Are these kinds of revolution still possible for us Is their fast-paced temporality not tied to the rigidity of existing power structures There can be revolutions against dictatorships but can there be revolutions against “representative democracies”—which would more accurately be described as “consumerist mediocracies” It seems to me that our relationship to the temporality of social change must be grasped in terms of polyphasing it consists of layers that evolve at their own pace and which only exceptionally change synchronously (moments that we call “revolutions”) The different forms and levels of power feed off our hopes The latter is what we too often dismiss as “small gestures” (i.e. is enough to be revolutionary: the radical redirection I discussed earlier requires taking the next step We will have to “rise up,” and we can only rise up together as I tried to demonstrate in issue 50 of Multitudes devoted precisely to “uprisings” (soulèvements) Yet these small gestures are both the first steps and the ultimate achievements of truly significant revolutions This is why they should not be scorned: they often occur below our political radar screens And I think we would be less prone to political despair if we saw these gestures in a more positive light Temporality does indeed present an obstacle to releasing our “revolutionary” potential it does not “last.” Yet what counts is what lasts and what the political forces that seek to redirect our social development lack is the ability to last What we call the (far) left suffers from a cardinal vice: for the past fifty years it has wasted its time on internal schisms The left regards consensus and compromise with suspicion it is chronically unable to organize itself—to establish organizations that can bring together different groups and channel them into a force that could change the course of our collective destiny but from within the new ways of life that revolutionary forms of media have made possible on the transition From Counterculture to Cyberculture demonstrates that online network activism resulted from the geographic dispersal of hippie communities in the late 1970s: people got tired of arguing over who would wash the dishes and clean the bathroom (it’s always the same ones!) so they each went off to their own little homes but developed computer tools so that they could stay in touch without leaving the house We can all think of conversations that would have remained mostly calm had they occurred face-to-face but which degenerated because they took place over email and habits to prevent us from squabbling via our keyboards and screens (like we once did over the dishes and bathroom) but it must happen if we are to “rise up together” in the new conditions of communication and collective action that characterize our age The point is not to advocate a return to temporality the rigidities of “democratic centralism,” or Trotskyism but rather to mobilize our efforts in ways that take into account the polyphased and polycentric character of our socio-political life We need to invent multilayered structures that allow the upper layers to change quickly while others remain fairly stable only structures that are polycentric and organized into several levels can grapple effectively with the complexity of our shared world (on this issue see the excellent interview with Ostrom in the journal Ecologie et Politique 41 The first requirement of any future “revolution” could well be the rejection of the very title of this interview When we speak of a “crisis of temporality,” we blind ourselves to the most pressing imperative: to replace the singular with the plural to realize that there is not one political temporality but rather that political change only occurs in phases which cannot be superimposed upon one another We must learn to analyze and imagine the diversity of temporalities that are tied to uprisings and the ways in which we organize our shared world Myriam Revault d’Allonnes: I do not believe that the critical question is that of our perception of revolutions speaking of the “age of revolutions,” showed that “revolution” became the consequences of this changing relationship to time particularly as they relate to the concept of revolution But this did not begin at the moment when “crisis” became ubiquitous The totalitarian experience had already rendered suspect both the concept and its correlates (i.e. the “new man,” the supposed end of exploitation and domination the very concept of “revolution” is problematic in a number of respects The modern revolutions of the eighteenth century (i.e. the American and the French Revolutions) abandoned the cyclical definition associated with astronomical revolutions the modern meaning of revolution implies a radical break with the old order and the birth of a new world These revolutions rested on the belief that the course of history would suddenly start anew a history that “has never been known or told before,” was beginning It was a number of background assumptions about temporality or historicity notably a progressive teleology and a belief in a brighter future which led these revolutionaries to believe they could inaugurate a new age these beliefs no longer exist: the vanishing of the expectations tied to humanity’s capacity for self-realization and the fading of age-old hopes have ushered in an a-teleological framework in which the future seems inchoate and indeterminate The very idea of emancipation must be reconceived independently from the classic revolutionary framework I am not convinced that the term “revolutionary” should be applied to the liberation movements that recently emerged in the Arab world and liberation movements directed against authoritarian and despotic regimes does not automatically entail the institution (or institutionalization) of liberty While democratic demands (in Egypt and particularly Tunisia) played a decisive role in these movements the difficulties these countries currently face have arisen from obstacles that have emerged to the democratizing process is not what conception of “revolution” we should have in light of the “crisis.” Rather it is to envision a new relationship to the new future notably (and especially) from the standpoint of political thought and action agonistic forms of discussion and contestation the contemporary disenchantment with many traditional political forms and a preference for original but often indefinable forms of expression may be less the sign of a complete disinterest in politics than the first draft of a new political practice as suggested by the proliferation of petition drives The point is not to promote a politics of “defiance” advocating contestation of various kinds as it favors protest rather than positive mobilization and refusal instead of endorsing a real political project Aside from the fact that the mobilization of purely negative energies is often condemned to failure (as with indignation or demands made in the name of victimhood) true counter-powers do not act merely through hindrance or oversight but display a genuine capacity for initiative: they not only place limits on established mechanisms they help to strengthen and above all to recreate democracy The new stakes we face are also genuine challenges: ecology such as the effective recognition of gender parity and problems relating to procreation and child-bearing These developments and changes offer opportunities for renewal: fifty years ago no one would ever have imagined that it was the business of politics to take on the question of the family Rather than a retreat from politics (or a falling back on so-called “social” questions) we are witnessing an extension of the scope of public affairs The fact that our democracies are beset with new questions that they are called upon to resolve may be an opportunity rather than a problem—and the same holds true for the potential invention (or reinvention) of new practices and new forms of action which would undoubtedly be linked to new subjective dispositions [1] Cerfi stands for Centre d’études de recherches et de formation institutionnelles (Center for Institutional Studies a French research collective that existed from 1967 to 1987 under the direction of Félix Guattari You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Hundreds of children, teachers, GPs and residents took to the streets on Friday to sound the alarm on the “potentially life-threatening” state of social housing. Protesters – organised by campaign group Lewisham Citizens – marched from Rushey Green Primary School in Culverley Road to the council’s headquarters at Laurence House holding banners which read “better care” and “better conditions” said some of his staff were missing work because of serious problems in their properties Mr Gordon is one of 11 headteachers in the borough to have signed an open letter to the council calling for immediate action to address the crisis which was read out at the start of the march The letter stated: “Housing challenges create barriers to learning such as poor attendance due to recurring illnesses punctuality due to further travel to and from school addressed to the council from seven Primary Care Networks in Lewisham said: “Our clinic rooms are full of patients experiencing lung problems skin complaints and safeguarding concerns due to poor housing yet we are powerless to address the root cause.” of Amersham Vale Training Practice in New Cross and lead for health inequalities and clinical supervisor for North Lambeth Primary Care Network She said: “It is becoming impossible to provide the help that patients need because of the constraints on the systems Dr Hirons said 38 per cent of referrals to the social prescribing service in her surgery were due to poor housing Social prescribing is when a GP connects patients to non-medical support in the borough This is because people often discuss non-medical concerns with their GPs as they don’t know where to turn to for support Dr Hirons said: “These issues are getting worse people are coming in with these issues not knowing where to go “There are huge stresses on housing waiting lists – one patient was waiting 13 years for repairs.” The health issues caused by poor housing have put pressure on an already overstretched healthcare system She said: “Waiting times for talking therapy are currently nine months These concerns were echoed by Dr Aaminah Verity Dr Verity has been a GP at Deptford Surgery in New Cross Road for 13 years She said: “We’ve seen an increase in extreme situations Mental health – linked to patients’ housing situations – is getting much worse This has a knock-on impact on chronic health issues and stops people from working “We can’t just keep treating them after they become unwell we need to start putting in place solutions to stop that happening in the first place.” Labour-run Lewisham brought more than 13,500 homes in the borough back under its control from Lewisham Homes in October 2023 In December 2023 the council referred itself to the housing regulator in acknowledgement of systemic issues with housing stock At the time 17 per cent of the council’s homes did not meet the minimum standard for social housing but that number was expected to balloon to 31 per cent by 2027 as the council diverts cash from refurbishment works to fire safety improvements Between April and October 2023 less than a third of emergency repairs were completed in time Lewisham has spent £9.9million on temporary accommodation in the past year A council spokeswoman said the lack of housing supply and increased rents has seen many more families coming to the council unable to afford rent in the private sector Lewisham council has been approached for comment Pictured top: Children march through Catford demanding better housing (Picture: Salomé Revault d’Allonnes – Citizens UK) Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value"