column on why is the far right is obsessed with dubai www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

After 9 months of fighting, we've obtained secret docs from Redbridge Council that shine a new light on our Jas Athwal exposé. Plus: underground film screenings, getting trapped in sewage tunnels and the truth about Declan Rice’s £14m housing donation. www.the-londoner.co.uk/a-new-develo...

Reform’s first London councillor is a rogue landlord with a 33-person HMO! Great story by @andrewkersley.bsky.social. Shooter has been fined for illegally renting out crammed bedsits in Camden. And one of his former tenants is.. @zackpolanski.bsky.social. www.the-londoner.co.uk/reforms-firs...

EXCL: Reform's first councillor in London is a convicted "slum landlord" who rents out a 33-person HMO. While digging into him I found out one of his former tenants is new Green party leader Zack Polanski. www.the-londoner.co.uk/reforms-firs...

Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals A trove of leaked data from Boris Johnson’s private office reveals how the former prime minister has been profiting from contacts and influence he gained in office in a possible breach of ethics and lobbying rules.

From Washington Post to Manchester's @millmedia.bsky.social for new investigations editor Cameron Barr Barr wants to help "restore and revive the kind of investigative accountability, tough minded, rigorous reporting that that we all need" pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...

So I failed to post this as I was on leave, but I wrote about how London is dying of thirst for @londonermag.bsky.social. Give it a read: it's a weird saga of sweaty firefighters, collapsing bank vaults and references to the ancient Trojan seer Cassandra. www.the-londoner.co.uk/is-london-ru...

"He's a serial pub killer ... a danger to urban life as we know it" Billionare developer Asif Aziz has bought and shut dozens of London pubs for redevelopment. Good reporting by @andrewkersley.bsky.social for @londonermag.bsky.social

Another story about a very rich man determined to strip London's cultural assets. And another story that highlights the job that the London Evening Standard *hasn't* been doing: reporting on London.

Has your local pub closed down? It might be the work of the billionaire property developer Asif Aziz. If you recognise the name, that's because he's the man behind Criterion Capital, the firm that was recently accused of trying to shut down the Prince Charles Cinema.

Another excellent investigation into Aziz who appears story by story to be a total menace to London’s social fabric at the motivation of profit by property

Billionaire developer Asif Aziz is one of London's most powerful and influential landowners. In my latest investigation for @londonermag.bsky.social I found out how he has brought and shut down dozens of London pubs for redevelopment. www.the-londoner.co.uk/exclusive-th...

Great investigation by @coramazov.bsky.social about an amazing character and London's high-end sub-letting market www.the-londoner.co.uk/claudio-is-s...

New Providence Wharf is a luxury block in Canary Wharf with a gym, pool and valets. It has also set on fire three times in the last four years. I found out what's been going on for @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/new-providen...

Exclusive: Sheffield’s secret lab working on the UK’s next nuclear warheads www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/exclusive-sh...

‘Cutthroats and sell outs’: An editor’s note from me about Laurence Westgaph’s threats The historian has been threatening us with High Court action and trying to intimidate our sources and staff ⬇️ www.livpost.co.uk/cutthroats-a...

TfL banned a Tube ad by rap trio Kneecap saying it would cause “serious offence”. So why did they run ads by the UCKG, an evangelical church that former members say is coercive, conducts conversion therapy and is like a "cult"? Catch up on our story: www.the-londoner.co.uk/tfl-banned-a...

“Marshall is so desperate to be invited to the dinner parties that he paid twice what it [The Spectator] was worth” 👀 It’s July and @hkatewilliams.bsky.social wanted a gossipy media read so here it is! Murdoch vs Marshall is getting tasty - and expensive.. www.the-londoner.co.uk/250k-salarie...

Six years ago the government offered £37m to a company promising to end London's homelessness crisis. But after years of missed targets, whistleblower complaints and staff allegedly playing Xbox at work, this year it shut down. Where did it all go wrong?

Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

EXCL: I got access to secret plans to ban cars from a chunk of Central London stretching from Elephant and Castle to Regent's Park. My latest in @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/plan-to-ban-...

I wrote about the behind the scenes story of how Lime beat out TfL's Santander Cycles to become London's new cycle hire overlord. Read my inside story of lobbying, million pound council pay-offs and a cycling wild west in @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-lime-squ...

EXCL: The University of East London was given a £1.6m grant by City Hall, a record high for any uni, right after it hired the mayor's wife. It promised the scheme would produce hundreds of green jobs. The number created so far? Just 14. My @londonermag.bsky.social scoop

EXCL: The University of East London was given a £1.6mn grant by City Hall, a record high for any university, right after it hired the mayor's wife. It promised the scheme would produce hundreds of green jobs. The number created so far? Just 14. @andrewkersley.bsky.social's latest investigation

Scoop from The Londoner here www.the-londoner.co.uk/city-hall-ue...

Exciting to see that @andrewkersley.bsky.social's story on the plan to free the 15 penguins stuck in the basement of the London Aquarium has become @londonminute.bsky.social's most clicked link ever!

Thanks to @andrewkersley.bsky.social for reaching out and covering this campaign. If we’re saying that that is an acceptable way to treat animals, I think it reflects badly on us as a country. www.the-londoner.co.uk/free-london-...

Two months ago, punters with a hankering for spicy wings were confronted by a peculiar sign at a Metro’s chicken shop in Ladywell. @andrewkersley.bsky.social and @milesellingham.bsky.social decided to find out more. They uncovered a clandestine chicken war that's changing the face of the capital.

5️⃣ @londonermag.bsky.social: Great story from @hkatewilliams.bsky.social and @andrewkersley.bsky.social about 'research' from sources with obvious vested interests.

The news is full of headlines about millionaires fleeing London. But most of those stories are based on dodgy data created by a controversial wealth advisory and a one-man research firm that studies exotic birds. My investigation for @londonermag.bsky.social

Notting Hill Genesis was founded to solve the housing crisis. Now it's one of London's biggest, and worst, landlords, with homes filled with mould, rats and sewage and blocks that use 'poor doors'. What happened? www.the-londoner.co.uk/notting-hill...

A brilliant and powerful article by @andrewkersley.bsky.social & @londonermag.bsky.social exploring the history of Notting Hill Genesis and its metamorphosis from fighting slum landlordism into a slum landlord itself. www.the-londoner.co.uk/notting-hill...

Next week, he is standing to be a Tory councillor in the newly created Harrogate Town Council. Full story (and archive digging) by @lucascumiskey.bsky.social 👇 4/4 hyphenonline.com/2025/04/25/a...

Kilburn was once the hub of London's Irish community. Now it's nowhere to be seen. What happened? I wrote about my home of the last four years and London's obsession with commercialised Irishness for @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-death-of...

Really loved the little details of this @milesellingham.bsky.social piece. Especially the fact that a model who has been in cover shoots for Gucci and Dior is one of the leading volunteers in the Natural History Museum's basement beetle rooms.

For @londonermag.bsky.social I visited a room in the @nhm.org that contains 300 years, nine million beetles and a few dedicated bug experts at the cusp of a changing world. Have a read www.the-londoner.co.uk/beetlemania-...

Millions of visitors descend on London every year. As councils face bankruptcy and a quarter of some area's homes are turned into Airbnbs, the capital is considering something new: a tax on tourists. @andrewkersley.bsky.social found out what's going on: www.the-londoner.co.uk/should-londo...

“The health and safety risks of wearing the costume were so severe that actors could spend a maximum of half an hour playing the ogre before they had to be pulled out of the suit for their own safety.” Absolutely wonderful stuff from @andrewkersley.bsky.social and @londonermag.bsky.social 👏

Somebody once told me that every journalist has a white whale. That one story they just can’t get out of their head, that drills its way deep into their brain. Mine is big, green and has more layers than an onion: Shrek’s Adventure.

Do you ever wonder what it's like to work at Shrek’s Adventure? Well I spoke to ex-staff. They told me about actors running Shrek-themed OnlyFans accounts and ogre costumes too dangerous to wear for over 30 mins. My magnum opus for @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/life-inside-...

For @londonermag.bsky.social I profiled Dermot Hudson, a London-born former civil servant who’s made it his life’s work to defend and support the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He also enjoys windmills. www.the-londoner.co.uk/north-koreas...

I chronicled the saga of Fallout London in @londonermag.bsky.social It's the inside story of a group of volunteers with no funding and no training who outdid some of the world's biggest game studios, with a little help from former Commons speaker John Bercow. www.the-londoner.co.uk/inside-story...

This is a fiercely sad and damning piece about the reality of one of our most admired professions. What a terrible fate for a dedicated man www.the-londoner.co.uk/nhs-doctor-s...

🤔 Who's behind a series of anti Elon Musk adverts on London's Tube and bus networks? 🏝️ Are the residents of the capital's most elite island set to lose their homes? 🍸 South London's cheapest new martini bar All that and more in our new briefing: www.the-londoner.co.uk/whos-behind-...

An NHS doctor dies by suicide every three weeks. A nurse attempts suicide almost every day. @andrewkersley.bsky.social told the story of one of them, Dr Jagdip Sidhu, and how he was failed by the health service he gave his life to. www.the-londoner.co.uk/nhs-doctor-s...

An NHS doctor commits suicide every three weeks. I told the story of one of them, Dr Jagdip Sidhu, and chronicled how working in an underfunded, broken health system left him feeling like there was no future. My story for @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/nhs-doctor-s...

“An NHS doctor dies by suicide every three weeks. A nurse attempts suicide almost every day.” Heartbreaking piece by @andrewkersley.bsky.social in @londonermag.bsky.social this weekend.

'Our reporting shows that Barking’s leading councillors accepted thousands of pounds worth of gifts and hospitality from key construction companies, two of which also employed Barking councillors, including the daughter of the council leader.' Pretty clear grounds to investigate here!

Read the full saga in today's story by @andrewkersley.bsky.social: www.the-londoner.co.uk/barking-coun...

These are pictures of the conditions at two new blocks of flats in Barking. The firms that built them were given tens of millions in contracts by the council to do so, after giving expensive gifts and even jobs to councillors. The council called it a "non-story". Do you agree?