Jim Waterson
Editor and Journaslit at London Centric
Journalist. Editor of @London_centric, a modern news outlet for London. WhatsApp me: +447760993558, https://t.co/SbRXlWSfIC - Rarely check X, try Bluesky
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1 week ago |
londoncentric.media | Jim Waterson
“It’s the police!” shouted Margaret Smorthit, when London Centric began asking questions of her husband Steve on the doorstep of their house. The reality, I explained, was worse: I was a journalist who wanted to know about a financial deal involving one of Banksy’s best known London artworks. Steve started to explain that he couldn’t discuss the issue.
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1 week ago |
londoncentric.media | Jim Waterson |Rachel Rees
There was a big response to Saturday’s piece about London’s vigilante tube cleaners, and the political movement behind them. (The comments section is still very much alive and well worth checking out.)A lot of people told us they wanted to know more about exactly why it is that London’s tube trains are suddenly covered in graffiti. Sometimes the simplest way to find out is just to ask – so today we have a chat with a tube maintenance worker, who explains it all.
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2 weeks ago |
londoncentric.media | Jim Waterson |Rachel Rees
Yesterday morning London Centric reporter Rachel Rees took the lift down to the platform at Lambeth North tube station, and joined a trio of young men wearing high-vis jackets emblazoned with the words “Doing What Sadiq Khant”. For the next hour, as commuters stared at their phones and tried to avoid making eye contact, the group (and Rachel) went up and down the Bakerloo line removing the graffiti that has plagued the trains on the route in recent months.
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2 weeks ago |
londoncentric.media | Jim Waterson
If London has a soundtrack for summer 2025 then it’s the beep beep beep of a stolen Lime e-bike approaching down a street. The high-pitched electronic noise is near-ubiquitous in the capital at the moment, as the company struggles to find a technical solution after the capital’s ever-resourceful teenagers pioneered a new way to use the vehicles for free. Scroll down to read why it happens — and what Lime are doing to fix it.
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3 weeks ago |
semafor.com | Jim Waterson
In a city where allegiance and proximity to power is everything, the leader’s closest adviser portrayed himself as an outsider. He began the year by hiring a bunch of “weirdos and misfits” and ordering them to rip up the entire “rotten” system of government. The adviser loved to put noses out of joint and “own the libs,” while building up his profile in the media as the real power behind the throne.
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Bookswap libraries are returning to the London Underground after six weeks of negotiations between Sadiq Khan, TfL and the London Fire Brigade and following the purchase of fire safe cabinets.... but only at above ground stations for now (so not the inner London tube stations).
News: Transport for London bans non-folding e-bikes from next week. Unions were unhappy following fires. TfL says the issue is mainly dodgy conversion kits rather than purpose-built e-bikes but hard to tell difference. Folding e-bikes allowed ("The Brompton exemption").
Tfw you’re listening to your terrible non-league football team’s commentary and @JamesCleverly pops up. https://t.co/eyXj5CzTFi