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Delayed shipments, the war in Iran and the search for the capital’s juiciest fruit
A council celebrated blocking 867 new homes in London this week. Were they right to?
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We won our defamation case!
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Mick Jagger topples Battersea tower
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The UK’s largest hippie commune was on an island in the Thames
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After London’s worst year for housebuilding on record, is the market in meltdown?
“I think there's a f***ing awful future in front of us the next 12 to 24 months”
How a Spitalfields blog became bigger than Keanu Reeves
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London’s elections were seismic. What happens now?
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Lambeth to the slaughter: How Labour lost its stronghold
'Six months ago, I didn’t think it was feasible for Labour to lose their majority here'
Inside the Barbican's 'Game of Thrones' power struggle
How the brutalist arts centre lost its artistic director — and its direction
London’s pubs are in crisis. Can a new generation of landlords save them?
‘I don’t think anyone has woken up and said it’s my dream to be the district manager of a Wetherspoons in Woking’
‘This is where we are. The city is our natural habitat’
From the Inquisition to the Kindertransport, London has been a safe harbour for Jews. Can it still make that promise?