The government spent millions on a plan to house London’s homeless. Then it all went wrong.
“It was a good year and a half that we were doing absolutely nothing”
Andrew Kersley
Andrew has done reporting and investigative journalism for the Observer, the Sunday Times, Vittles and Private Eye.
Were police called to Brockwell Lido?
A shortage of outdoor swimming spots is turning London into the Hunger Games
Exclusive: The shelved plan to ban non-electric cars from Central London
We’ve obtained a 25-slide document that suggests a very different future for the capital — so why was it quietly filed away?
The high-rise that stole the sun
At the centre of Covent Garden lies the area's last community garden. Soon, it might disappear — all due to a new luxury hotel and theatre built for Cirque du Soleil.
How Lime squeezed out the Santander bike
"Boris Bikes" were supposed to be London's cycling future. This is how a private company supplanted them.
Pulling back the curtain on London’s most powerful
The rebirth of investigative reporting in the capital
City Hall gave a £1.6mn grant to a university after it employed the mayor’s wife
The record subsidy was supposed to create hundreds of green jobs across East London. But 18 months later, has it had any impact?
15 penguins are trapped in a Southbank basement. This is the plan to free them
An activist, a journalist and an MP walk into the London Aquarium. A colony of Gentoo penguins walk out
The great chicken shop war
Inside Morley's secret campaign to crush its competitors and build a city-wide monopoly
Are the super rich really leaving London?
A controversial advisory firm for the ultra-wealthy convinced national newspapers that we're facing an exodus of millionaires. Was it true?
“Headphone dodgers” are taking over London transport. Should we ban them?
“Everyone is totally zoning out and being incredibly obnoxious in the process”
How a charity founded to solve the housing crisis became one of London’s worst landlords
What went wrong at Notting Hill Genesis?
The death of County Kilburn
This corner of northwest London was once known as the 33rd county of Ireland. Did its disappearance take the soul of Irish London with it?
Should London start taxing tourists?
It could raise tens of millions of pounds a year. But no-one can agree on how to do it.
Cocaine, kids and Shrek-themed OnlyFans: life inside London’s immersive tourist attractions
One former Shrek’s Adventure employee tells all
How to make London into a nuclear wasteland
Inside Fallout London: how an underdog team of unpaid, untrained enthusiasts made a video game that outshone the biggest corporate studios