London’s housing crisis is worsening
There are 106,000 people searching for rooms in the capital, but fewer than 15,000 available.
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Should we have a statue of the Queen in Trafalgar Square?
It’s not as straightforward as a culture war between Sadiq Khan and right-wing royalists.
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The mystery of the pine marten’s return to London
Rogue release or recolonisation? The sighting offers a sliver of hope – we should take it.
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The Policy Ask with Manny Hothi: “The world is waking up to the futility of the war on drugs”
The CEO of Trust for London on Grenfell Tower, leadership and working for Londoners.
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The Policy Ask with Nick Bowes: “It is high time we reversed the over-centralisation of our country”
Sadiq Khan’s former director of policy on devolution, productivity and LGBTQ+ rights.
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Why do straight men love the Elizabeth Line?
On dates, in the pub, and on social media, men won’t stop telling me about London’s newest mode of transport.
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I am moping, having learned again that the heart does what it bloody well wants
I knew she was clever and funny but I wasn’t prepared for, well, the whole package.
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In east London I find a freshly baked croissant worth rising early for
At 4:30am I cycle to the social enterprise Dusty Knuckle and find the sweet, buttery scent of warm patisserie waiting…
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How the super-rich live
Wandering through the haunts favoured by London’s wealthiest residents reveals the gilded side of the capital hiding in plain sight.
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What summer in London taught me about loss
As a child newly arrived in the capital from Nigeria, the season seemed expansive and intoxicating. Now I realise that…
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London is still the big winner in the time of “levelling up”
Public spending has increased by 8 per cent in London over the last three years but by only 1 per…
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The building that remade London
One Hyde Park was meant to represent hope after recession almost ruined Britain’s property market. Its legacy is far more…
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“The Tories are seen as increasingly anti-London”, says Westminster’s first Labour leader
Adam Hug on his party’s path to power in the capital’s iconic borough.
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London Pride 50 years on – where did it all go wrong?
Who’d have thought the UK was once one of the most LGBTQ-friendly countries in Europe.
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The Brixton where I once sought hash and Red Stripe has gone missing
I hadn’t been to Brixton in decades. Railton Road, the front line of street dealing in our day, is now…
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How much longer can the government kick the TfL funding can down the road?
Another short-term, last-minute deal will do little to resolve London’s key transport issues.
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Is polio’s reappearance in London connected to Covid?
New signs of a virus that had been banished from Britain for decades raise further questions about the pandemic’s effects.
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The end of Time Out magazine is an omen of London’s cultural demise
The nightlife that Time Out helped to define has been all but cleared out by property developers and the pandemic.
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It’s time for renters to rise up
If the government won’t help us to buy, let’s take on landlords together.
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Patriotism is an emotional language I’m not fluent in but I loved my Jubilee street party
It is true that the festivities cost millions, but the celebrations were a moving way to unify a diverse, multicultural…
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