Sadiq Khan’s silent city
London is no “24-hour city”. It struggles to stay up beyond midnight.
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What is going on with Caffè Concerto?
The kitsch café chain offers unsettling lessons about London.
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What is Brick Lane without bagels?
What the fate of a beloved East End bagel shop tells us about our changing cities.
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The housing crisis outrage machine
The UK press has only one solution for the broken rental market: clickbait.
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Beavers are the secret weapon in the UK’s flood defences
After a 400-year hiatus, the Eurasian beaver has been reintroduced in London, boosting climate resilience.
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Time for a new approach on climate
As Cop28 commences and national governments falter, we need to recognise the central role of cities in the fight against…
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The return of London’s netherworld
We are becoming a society of strangers, held together only by the exercise of power.
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Inside London’s day of rage
The night descended into skirmishes between protesters, the far right and the police. Is this the new normal?
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Is Sadiq Khan cruising to re-election after all?
There are reasons to be sceptical of a new YouGov poll suggesting Khan would win by a 25-point margin.
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Bring them home
At a London rally in support of Israel over the weekend fear was palpable – but so was the defiance.
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Andrew Boff’s removal is a symbol of the Tories’ self-destruction
The London Assembly chair is exactly the sort of liberal, urban voter the Conservative Party has not just lost, but…
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Susan Hall: “I’m not what you think I am”
The Tory London mayoral candidate on how she will beat Sadiq Khan, the “disgraceful” treatment of the police, and her…
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The meanwhile space deception
Temporary neighbourhood gimmicks are turning your next home into a Potemkin village.
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Will Sadiq Khan lose the London mayoral election?
The London Mayor is just a point ahead of his Conservative rival Susan Hall even without Jeremy Corbyn on the…
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Stop making local issues national
From Ulez to Andy Burnham, the whole country is viewed through the lens of Westminster and the general election.
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You can thank Boris Johnson for Ulez
Sadiq Khan is owning his predecessor’s policy.
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London’s charming India Club is closing, and I feel bereft
A modest candle of quirkiness and affordability has been snuffed out, so the capital can have another luxury hotel.
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How Vittles trolled London
The newsletter seems to hold its readers in low esteem.
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John Le Carré and the spectre of British decline
The 1970s London of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was a place of decay. What defines it now?
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Scrapper is a sickly sweet father-daughter comedy
In Charlotte Regan’s playful but twee debut, a fiercely independent 12-year-old is reunited with her absent young dad.
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