Hackney Rejects Flats Beside the Moth Club
Hackney Council rejects seven flats beside the Moth Club, stunning developers who thought every square metre of London was a future apartment.
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Khan Finds £4 Billion in Unclaimed Benefits
Sadiq Khan finds Londoners miss £4 billion in unclaimed benefits and City Hall spends £5 million explaining it. Croydon and Lewisham want a leaflet-free answer.
Londoners Joust on Rental E-Bikes
Hundreds watch armoured knights joust on Lime rental e-bikes at London Fields. Lime reminds the knights of its terms and conditions.
Dockless Bikes Announced Again, Earlier Bikes Found in Canal
City Hall Pledges a Fresh Fleet as the Previous Fleet Is Located Under a Bridge in Hackney LONDON, ENGLAND | Lord Khan, the Labour mayor of London, discussed dockless bikes at the party conference in Liverpool on Tuesday 29 September, according to ITV News. City Hall said the matter was “being looked at”, which officials confirmed is the stage after “being scoped” and before “being looked at again”. A spokesman…
London Dating Expert Says Stop Looking for Someone to Cure Your Loneliness, Entire City Immediately Deletes Hinge and Goes Back to Complaining About Rent
London Dating Expert Says Stop Looking for Someone to Cure Your Loneliness, Entire City Immediately Deletes Hinge and Goes Back to Complaining About Rent | Experts discover Londoners were apparently using romance as an alternative to affordable housing
The Adam and Eve: A Pub From the Garden of Eden
The Adam and Eve: A Pub From the Garden of Eden | A Homerton pub carrying the first man and woman, one of the oldest and most storied of all inn names, rooted in the Garden of Eden
The Spread Eagle: A Heraldic Bird Turned Fully Vegan
The Spread Eagle: A Heraldic Bird Turned Fully Vegan | A Homerton pub carrying the heraldic spread eagle – and famous as London’s first fully vegan pub, plant-based down to the furniture
The Victoria: A Dalston Pub for the Queen-Empress
The Victoria: A Dalston Pub for the Queen-Empress | A Dalston pub named for Queen Victoria, whose long reign gave its name to an age, a style and countless pubs across the land
Cherry Review: The Cherry on Top Is Not a Cherry
Cherry Review: The Cherry on Top Is Not a Cherry | The maraschino is bleached, soaked, dyed and re-flavoured, and there is almost nothing of the original left
Carbobar Review: A 4.8, and Carbonara Has No Cream in It
Carbobar Review: A 4.8, and Carbonara Has No Cream in It | Eggs, cheese, pork and pepper – and the cream is a foreign invention that Italians find genuinely upsetting
Helgi’s Review: The Vikings Were Traders First and the Raiding Is the Bit We Kept
Helgi’s Review: The Vikings Were Traders First and the Raiding Is the Bit We Kept | Silver from Baghdad in Swedish soil, a trade network from Ireland to the Caspian, and a very bad reputation
Glove That Fits Review: The Line Is From a Murder Trial and It Was a Trap
Glove That Fits Review: The Line Is From a Murder Trial and It Was a Trap | If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit – and leather shrinks, and the defence knew exactly what it was doing
Royal Inn on the Park Review: The Park Was a Political Act
Royal Inn on the Park Review: The Park Was a Political Act | Victoria Park was built because thirty thousand people signed a petition saying the East End had nowhere to breathe
Natural Philosopher Review: Scientist Is a New Word
Natural Philosopher Review: Scientist Is a New Word | Nobody was called a scientist until 1834, and the man who coined it was mocked for it
Netil360 Review: The Eleventh Rooftop, and It Broke the Rule
Netil360 Review: The Eleventh Rooftop, and It Broke the Rule | A 4.5 on a serious sample, which is half a star above where every other rooftop in this survey has landed
Off Broadway Review: Off-Broadway Was Defined by Seat Count
Off Broadway Review: Off-Broadway Was Defined by Seat Count | It is not a place and it is not a style – it is a number of seats, written into a union agreement
London Fields Review: They Were Fields, and They Were Nearly Not
London Fields Review: They Were Fields, and They Were Nearly Not | Cattle grazed there on the way to Smithfield, and the ground survived only because commoners fought for it
Mikkeller Review: The Brewery Does Not Own a Brewery
Mikkeller Review: The Brewery Does Not Own a Brewery | A Danish maths teacher started brewing in a kitchen, refused to buy a plant, and built one of the most influential beer companies in the world
Chesham Arms Review: The Locals Fought to Reopen It and They Won
Chesham Arms Review: The Locals Fought to Reopen It and They Won | A pub closed, converted, and the community forced it back open through the planning system
London Cyclist Travels Through Four Boroughs
London Cyclist Travels Through Four Boroughs and Causes Three Near-Misses To Save 11 Seconds on Commute LONDON — A 31-year-old data analyst from Islington confirmed Thursday that his new cycling route — which passes through Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Southwark, and briefly Lewisham before looping back north — saves approximately 11 seconds on his morning commute compared to the more direct route that simply did not feel optimised enough. James Haverstock, who has…
London Scene
London Scene | Five Things Everyone Quietly Understands About the London Scene
MOTH Club Review: It Is a Veterans’ Club and the Ceiling Is Gold Tinsel
MOTH Club Review: It Is a Veterans’ Club and the Ceiling Is Gold Tinsel | Memorable Order of Tin Hats – a real ex-servicemen’s organisation, and the members still drink there
London Boroughs Ranked by Confidence
London Boroughs Finally Ranked by Confidence Despite Having Nothing to Be Confident About London has finally achieved what no imperial census, transport white paper, or mayoral task force could ever deliver: a comprehensive confidence ranking of its boroughs, measured not by results, competence, or infrastructure, but by sheer uncut civic self-belief. 🏙️✨ The methodology was simple and impeccably London. Researchers observed council press releases, overheard brunch conversations, planning committee minutes,…
Kenton Review: A 4.6, and the Small Room Wins Again
Kenton Review: A 4.6, and the Small Room Wins Again | Eight hundred people, and the one variable that has predicted a high rating in every district without exception