Zack Polanski’s new fortress
The Hackney mayoral election could be the Green Party’s coronation
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London may be safer – but it is suffering “chaos creep”
It’s unsettling to live in a city where the state seems unable to stop petty crime
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Christmas Day in lonely central London
Searching for signs of life on 25 December
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For the chop: an elegy to London’s Smithfield meat market
Soon, there will be no men left to whizz past you with shopping trolleys full of uncooked ribs
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Cold-water swimming with Canary Wharf bankers
Can this century’s favourite health fad save the financial district?
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Searching for London’s most performative male
Men who deliberately curate their cultural tastes to impress women are a new target of internet mockery
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The muted defiance of London’s Palestine Action protest
At a fraught national moment, police arrested an estimated 442 demonstrators
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Is there any hope for the British high street?
Even London’s Oxford Street is succumbing to decline
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Lime bikes are the scourge of Tube strike London
Forget cabbies and lorry drivers: cyclists have a new enemy.
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Why don’t British politicians know how to eat?
They are committed to bad Caesar salads and anti-taste signalling.
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What’s up with London’s sandwich bros?
Layer up the sliced meats and the corporate bohemians of the West End will come.
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The robots are stealing our houses!
The government’s focus on tech could unite Yimbys and Nimbys, as data centres threaten future housing.
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Can the Great British caff survive?
Franchising is a low-risk way to grow, and a quick way to dilute charm.
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The decline and fall of Great Britain
From the graffiti to the economy, a sense of terminal rot has set in.
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Conservatives don’t understand London
The city’s problems are not caused by immigration.
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A day out with Jeremy Corbyn’s new party
Can they really replace Labour?
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So you want to be Irish?
Kneecap’s confrontational message proved hard to swallow for a north London audience.
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How terror came home on 7/7
In Three Weeks in July, Adam Wishart and James Nally show how the Islamist bomb attacks of July 2005 changed…
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The race to succeed Sadiq Khan
London’s mayor does not plan to stand for a fourth term – who will follow him?
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The rise of the west
Dalston’s identikit wine bars were the chosen destination in 2018. Now it’s W10’s turn.
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