They wrote ‘Why I’m Leaving London’ essays, but did exiting the capital solve their problems?
Imogen West-Knights caught up with authors of viral leaving London essays and videos, years after the fact
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"I don't even know what is going to happen to me. They could move me to Birmingham."
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‘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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‘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
Does Sadiq Khan have a plan for Oxford Street?
Candy stores, tourist traps and the councillor who says of City Hall's dramatic new proposal: 'They don't know what they're doing'
Would you have stayed in London's 'tight knit' communities?
New research challenges our nostalgia for a world where family stayed close and neighbours were on hand to lend a pint of milk
Is London becoming more affordable to rent in?
Plus: How “faint giggles” almost ended a London pub’s late night licence
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’
Lambeth, Barking and the making of Morgan McSweeney
How did an unproven novice go on to become Starmer’s right hand man?
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The perils of the London mega-novel
'It might be the last of its kind, a literary Titanic, if not an outsized dinosaur, post-asteroid'
Exclusive: Labour MP Jas Athwal is the landlord of a failing children’s home
The home is run by a friend of his, whose company received millions from the council Athwal ran