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...

Every day, a group of dozens of volunteers across the capital stand ready as a rapid response force. Their job? To save trapped pigeons. @petercarlyon.bsky.social went out on patrol to find out why they're dedicated to London's most-hated feathery friend. www.the-londoner.co.uk/hes-like-the...

In deep East London, a nondescript warehouse filled with fake supermarkets and imitation bus stops is shaping the future of our city. Welcome to PEARL, the capital’s cutting-edge urban laboratory. www.the-londoner.co.uk/inside-simul...

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...

Labubus, love letters and Brewdog cans. Some insane tributes have been left at Karl Marx's Highgate grave over the years. This is the story of how and why things got so weird, and the one man who now looks after the messy collection of tributes. www.the-londoner.co.uk/karl-marxs-l...

On an unassuming side street in Elephant and Castle is a secret workshop. It's where an army of outsourced mechanics fix the city's vast fleets of rental e-bikes. We went in to find out more www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-secret-a...

A new pub shut by Asif Aziz, Latin American strip malls and the convicted pedophile attending anti-migrant protests for the “protection of women and children”. Catch up on yesterday's Monday Briefing www.the-londoner.co.uk/is-another-l...

For @londonermag.bsky.social, I visited the Hyman Archive, the world’s biggest magazine collection, as it sits in a strange limbo inside a south London lock-up www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-south-lo...

🚨I'm absolutely delighted to announce that the brilliant Cameron Barr, the former Snr Managing Editor of the @washingtonpost.com, has joined @millmedia.bsky.social as our first Investigations Editor. It's a huge win for us and for local journalism in this country. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...

Across London, hundreds of couriers carry blood, urine or tissue samples all over the city. Almost all of them are Brazilian. @petercarlyon.bsky.social finds out what it's like to be the secret backbone of the capital's medical sector. www.the-londoner.co.uk/londons-braz...

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...

I wrote about the crime ring diverting pet food meat into London butchers for @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/a-rotten-bus...

Nice piece on Crossbones graveyard, and what it means to people today, from @londonermag.bsky.social "Honouring London’s outcast dead" www.the-londoner.co.uk/honouring-lo... (I hold a fancy that debtors from the Clink prison may have been buried here, but have no evidence.)

Such a fine piece of journalism courtesy of Hannah Williams for @londonermag.bsky.social

In a dilapidated South Ealing YMCA, a rag-tag volunteer team are trying to fight off death, with ice, antifreeze and industrial amounts of "wishful thinking". Welcome to Cryonics UK. www.the-londoner.co.uk/freezing-lon...

"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

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.

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...

They wrote ‘Why I’m Leaving London’ essays. But did exiting the capital solve their problems? Imogen West-Knights caught up with authors of viral leaving London essays and videos, years after the fact.

Three excellent pieces from @londonermag.bsky.social which has (as the Americans would say) been on a tear recently: "Claudio is Scamming" is about a weird Italian guy bilking Airbnb landlords (boo-hoo, you might think, but it's a great piece)

Jaw-dropping stat by @londonermag.bsky.social in this morning's email: "The arrests at the Palestine Action rally is thought to be the single biggest mass arrest by the Met Police in modern British History, beating the previous record of 339 during the poll tax riots in 1990." FWIW then v now...

How did an East London bookshop end in a staff-led occupation, a civil war between the city's radical left and a 4am siege, featuring the vice president of Google’s research arm? It all started with a clogged toilet. This is the story of The Scarlett Letters.

The world's elites want to live forever. As a result, London has now become a hub for a booming, and unregulated, industry of “longevity” clinics that promise just that. Read our latest piece by @serafinakenny.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/londons-elit...

Every year there's a party with immaculate fashion, great music and an elite guest list. The best way to get in? Be a London bus driver. Read our story on the 'Bus Driver Link Up', a small party for London bus drivers that has grown into a mini festival: www.the-londoner.co.uk/champagne-do...

Catch up on yesterday's Monday Briefing, featuring: 💩 A 180 tonne island of wet wipes in the Thames 🇵🇸 The biggest mass arrest in modern British history 🎥 A new home for the Prince Charles Cinema www.the-londoner.co.uk/farewell-to-...

London bus drivers know how to party. Great piece by @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/champagne-do...

New piece in @londonermag.bsky.social this morning on the current status of Haggerston Baths! The private equity scheme to restore the building... is not going so well. Still derelict after 8 years, and Hackney Council now spends over £200,000 p/a on security www.the-londoner.co.uk/haggerston-b...

ICYMI yesterday we delved into London's slow descent into American style tipping culture. www.the-londoner.co.uk/to-tip-or-no...

Haggerston Baths was once one of the most beautiful pools in London. Then it closed. The ensuing years have been a mess of millions in wasted council money, failed developments and a community wondering why it's been so impossible to reopen a swimming pool. www.the-londoner.co.uk/haggerston-b...

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...

“You know what I think is his problem, very, very, honestly?” the man said. “He doesn’t understand that there is a limit". In West London, an Italian charmer is duping the owners of the city's priciest properties, leaving a trail of debt and damage. This is the story of Claudio Di Giovanni.

Nestled next to Canary Wharf is a secret farm –– the biggest city farm in London. But now its fighting to survive. We sent Jack Jeffrey to find out what's been going on. www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-battle-f...

Clogged toilets, trade unions and Google researchers: this is the saga of the Scarlett Letters The strange death of east London’s most radical bookshop. What a tale from @londonermag.bsky.social. www.the-londoner.co.uk/scarlett-let...

You’re not imagining it - London buses are much slower than 10 years ago. Data crunching by @londonermag.bsky.social

You're not imagining it: London buses have gotten slower over the last decade. We've built a tool using a decade of TfL data to track the speed of every London bus line. Check what's happened to your route here: www.the-londoner.co.uk/bus-speed-to...

Is your London bus getting slower? Almost certainly yes.. try @londonermag.bsky.social’s interactive tool. www.the-londoner.co.uk/bus-speed-to...

Excellent interactive bus-speed tool for Londoners. My usual route hasn't slowed down nearly as much as some.

🚨NEW🚨: The Londoner has crunched over 10 years of TfL data to reveal which routes have slowed the most. Want to see how your route is faring? Use our interactive tool here to explore the average speed of your bus over the last ten years.

Delighted to see @alphaville.ft.com linking to my @londonermag.bsky.social piece about the new London media arms race. Check it out www.the-londoner.co.uk/250k-salarie...

This is how London looked at the last council elections. But after scores of defections and lost by-elections and a record slump in the polls, could this map look very different at next year's local elections?

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...

‘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...

The backlash against the Tate for being too "woke", the £450,000 dinosaur skeleton and a new exhibition on David Bowie curated by The Last Dinner Party. Catch up on this week's culture edition: www.the-londoner.co.uk/why-is-every...

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?

🗞️ Weekend read out now! Wild beavers are marching on London, coming up from Kent. After protracted war between beavers and humans in Scotland - resulting in culling drives - a project in Ealing is trying to get ahead of bad PR by showing there's no need for panic. Will it succeed?

As London heats up, are police being called to popular outdoor swimming spots? We investigated Tuesday's chaos at Brockwell Lido - and why it happened.

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-...

Did you know that some parts of London are as much as seven degrees hotter than others? We mapped all of London's hottest areas, and met the council staff frantically trying to cool the capital down. www.the-londoner.co.uk/we-tracked-t...