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Plus: Will someone rid London of these troublesome trees, London Standard to merge with the Independent, Lime bikes could have legally-mandated minimum…
 • Jim Waterson
Laila Cunningham: Who is Reform's candidate to be mayor?
A poem praising London's diversity, a Conservative career that suddenly collapsed, and pledge to stop-and-search women in burkhas: We profile the woman…
 • Jim Waterson, Polly Smythe, and Cormac Kehoe
Amazon vouchers to fill school places
Plus: How engineers installed phone signal on the London Underground, how many freemasons can you fit in a police force, and the house with a swimming…
 • Jim Waterson
“London is fucking dead": The nightclub owner, the public funds, and the Lamborghini
Alex Proud's venues were propped up with almost a million pounds in emergency pandemic arts funding. The boss didn't mention he was buying vintage cars…
 • Sophie Wilkinson
Nicolas Cage's Walthamstow Nazi flag chaos
Plus: The "Lime tax" on stopping at red lights, more objections to Brockwell Park festivals, and how London are you really?
 • Jim Waterson
A Tale Of One City And Two Henry Smiths
These two London landlords are separated by four centuries — but joined by a common name and business interests.
 • Jim Waterson and Polly Smythe

December 2025

Our best articles of the year
From snails to mudlarks via The Ritz, unbuilt motorways and pedicab drivers — plus even more stories you might have missed.
 • Jim Waterson
The London Evri drivers getting pre-Xmas pay cuts
Plus: Hampstead Heath cafes are changing, we tracked down the new Omaze house, and is your corner of London going to be skint?
 • Jim Waterson and Polly Smythe
London council deploys speed cameras to catch cyclists
Plus: Rowans bowling alley is a profit-making machine, the most cursed Tesco Express in London, and the real impact of the tube fare rises.
 • Jim Waterson and Polly Smythe
London's other sewage scandal
London Centric chases illegal sewage from a single polluting pipe on its toxic journey across the capital.
 • Rachel Rees
Reform UK's leaked plan to win in London
Plus: Is this Google Map the way to unlock London's real hidden gem restaurants, are you the driver who owes Hackney council £250,000, and is the…
 • Jim Waterson, Polly Smythe, and Cormac Kehoe
No more Lambeth Country Show: Battle for Brockwell Park returns
Plus: Why are London's buses getting slower, the 81-year-old running to be the YIMBY mayor of London, We R Blighty turn to body cams, and would you buy…
 • Jim Waterson and Polly Smythe
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