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‘Nobody knows what’s down there’: The endless fire poisoning a community
It used to be an underground drug bunker. Now a field on the edge of London is so dangerous the fire service refuses to enter it and local children are choking on its fumes
The Yellow Bittern and the conservatism of London’s restaurant scene
‘Almost every buzzy launch of a bar or restaurant in the city features a painted sign with a faux-patina or a Victorian scrubbed-wood panel’
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The Yellow Bittern and the conservatism of London’s restaurant scene
‘Almost every buzzy launch of a bar or restaurant in the city features a painted sign with a faux-patina or a Victorian scrubbed-wood panel’
‘Nobody knows what’s down there’: The endless fire poisoning a community
It used to be an underground drug bunker. Now a field on the edge of London is so dangerous the fire service refuses to enter it and local children are choking on its fumes
Goldsmiths realism: how London’s radical university ate itself
‘There is no shortage of TikToks of crying students warning prospective enrollees to go somewhere else’
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