How to investigate a billionaire
Londoner reporter Andrew Kersley spills his investigative journalist secrets
Andrew Kersley
Andrew has done reporting and investigative journalism for the Observer, the Sunday Times, Vittles and Private Eye.
Is the Cockney extinct?
Newspapers are full of stories about the disappearance of London's historical East Enders. The truth is a lot more complicated
They claim to save London pubs. So why have they shut so many down?
Linea Homes has been called the “grim reaper” of pubs. Their targets include some of Peckham, Wimbledon and Camden’s most iconic boozers.
He's one of London’s most famous chefs. So why do so many people say Victor Garvey owes them money?
Giles Coren called him his “favourite kind of chef”. But former staff and business partners paint a different picture of the Michelin star winner.
Reform’s first London councillor is a “rogue landlord” with a 33-person HMO
Mark Shooter has been fined thousands of pounds for illegally renting out crammed bedsits in Camden. One of his former tenants just became Green Party leader.
Is London running out of water?
Between data centres, industry and new homes, London is facing record demand for water just as climate change leaves the capital drier than ever. The real problem is what comes next.
Exclusive: The billionaire developer closing London's pubs
Companies linked to Asif Aziz have been buying up and shutting down some of the capital’s most beloved boozers. Now, we’ve mapped them.
The strange death of east London’s most radical bookshop
Clogged toilets, trade unions and Google researchers: this is the saga of the Scarlett Letters
New Providence Wharf had everything — until the fires started
How a series of blazes changed the lives of residents in a luxury east London block
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”
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?