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London Library is one of the city's most elite literary institutions.
Campaigners are calling the chairman a “dictator” and accuse the library of “censorship” over long drawn out plans to renovate the building. @petercarlyon.bsky.social reports on how the saga got so overblown. Link below.
An update from @joshih.bsky.social on our libel case
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"One bar manager tells me they’ve dealt with at least two different punters defecating on the floor, in one case in protest at being denied service."
Is London's craft beer Mecca struggling with its own fame? We sent @andrewkersley.bsky.social to find out:
www.the-londoner.co.uk/chaos-on-the...
I spent the last few months speaking to breweries for @londonermag.bsky.social on the Bermondsey Beer Mile about the chaos every Saturday when they're descended on by hordes of coked up Home Counties lads.
Expect some insane tales of vomit, pelted cakes and tampon artworks.
When we spoke to Zack Polanski, he told us his campaign will focus on affordability - on rent controls and water nationalisation and lowering bills. An expensive ask, we said.
"It doesn't have to be, though", he replied. "That's a political choice"
Out on the street, we met one older gent who told Zoe "that Hannah [the plumber} speech was one of the best speeches by a politician I've heard in years".
A Labour swing voter perhaps? Not quite. He voted for the Monster Raving Loony Party in 2023 and last voted labour in 1965.
Garbett had previously advocated for abolishing the mayoral system, when the two candidates last faced off in 2023.
As for Polanski? Woodley said "I am going to have a dig at Zack" because "he was a part of that austerity movement back in the day".
Hackney's mayoral race is heating up, with the Greens hoping to install Zoë Garbett as their first ever mayor.
Mayor Caroline Woodley scoffed and told us "I think it’s interesting that Zoë, who doesn’t actually believe in the mayoral system, wants to make this her prize” ⬇️
Hot out of Gorton and Denton, the Green party are turning their attention towards London's May elections.
Their main aim? To win the Green's first ever London mayoralty in Hackney and seize full control of the £1.9bn budget. Our reporting from the campaign trail ⬇️
Brian Mitchell fell onto the tracks at Stratford station on Boxing Day 2023.
He was hit by four tubes before anyone noticed.
Was automation to blame for his death?
Read our weekend investigation:
www.the-londoner.co.uk/brian-mitche...
What's driving a wave of social media posts encouraging London schoolchildren to have street fights?
Plus, a £20m plan to save London buses and the Hampstead Heath cafes get a stay of execution
Read our Monday briefing:
www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-mysterio...
Launching a new newsroom is simple in theory:
If 500 people back it, we build it ⚒️
We’re working towards bringing independent journalism to West Yorkshire - and support like this from Robyn Vinter really means a lot.
EXCL: Traders on Hackney's iconic Ridley Road market are being forced out by their tax haven based corporate landlord.
The landlord claims it has been forced to kick them out due to a Met antisocial behaviour crackdown.
The force says that's not true.
My @londonermag.bsky.social scoop:
What's happening on the Loughborough Estate is one of the most insane sagas in London.
There's secret oil drums, manbags worth £374,000 and accusations of devil worship.
This week things went full Handforth parish council.
Read my @londonermag.bsky.social story:
There's been secret chemical barrels, accusations of devil worship and allegations of millions of pounds of fraud.
But now things have gotten even stranger on one of south London's biggest estates.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/loughborough...
Residents of Royal Mint Court have crowdfunded over £250,000 to oppose the Chinese embassy.
So much of the saga has been told as an espionage thriller. But deep down, it's a neighbourhood drama. Full story below
We solve the mystery of Knightsbridge's 'Langoustine Lifter'.
Plus, is billionaire developer Asif Aziz offloading his pub empire? And why has the Albert Bridge been forced to close?
For all that and more, check out our new Monday briefing:
www.the-londoner.co.uk/londons-lang...
In 2010, the builders of the Olympic Park found toxic waste dumped all over the planned site.
Their solution was to move it to a shrubland in Thamesmead.
Now that same site is to become the city's biggest housing project in decades.
Meet London's new towns:
www.the-londoner.co.uk/new-towns-lo...
On Thursday, robbers broke into a jewellery store in Hatton Garden in broad daylight.
It's just one of a spate of brazen robberies in the capital, driven by a booming price for gold.
We found out more in today's briefing: www.the-londoner.co.uk/exclusive-an...
Hatton Garden is London's most historic jewellery district.
Now a generation of hustling young traders have turned the area on its head.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-real-gol...
There's a disease eating away at the insides of London's most iconic buildings, from the Ritz to BBC Broadcasting House.
Landowners don't like to talk about it, and it can cost millions of pounds to fix. But where did it come from?
www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-rot-at-t...
The sickness started among the skyscrapers of 19th century Chicago. Before anyone knew better, it had already spread.
Soon, it came to London, and in the capital’s wealthiest districts found both its most fertile ground to spread and a name: Regent Street Disease.
From the Ritz to Broadcasting House, a secret rot is eating away at London's most iconic buildings.
I investigated Regent Street Disease, and met the people stopping London pedestrians getting flattened by masonry like orcs at the siege of Minas Tirith.
TfL are evicting a beloved South London newsagents.
Plus, UCKG gets rapped by regulators, Shoreditch planning chaos and London’s first South Indian restaurant
www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-a-tfl-re...
"Hobbs brings up Putney a lot during our interview, with the kind of tone I imagine Vietnam War veterans use to talk about the Tet offensive."
Since 2014, London's buses have lost a quarter of their passengers. What happened? And how is Putney to blame?
Read @andrewkersley.bsky.social's deep dive
The sudden return of London's disappearing orchestra, the National Gallery's unnoticed masterpiece and pyjama-clad opera.
Check out our latest Culture Edition
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