Matt Lloyd-Rose

Mar 25, 2024 | uk.knews.media | Matt Lloyd-Rose

For more from London’s art world, sign up for our new (free) newsletter and community: Londonist: Urban Palette. Over 300 photo prints from the private collection of Sir Elton John and David Furnish go on display at the V&A this summer.

Mar 25, 2024 | uk.knews.media | Matt Lloyd-Rose

Spring has finally read the room and decided to (somewhat) grace the capital with its presence, and across the city, Londoners are slowly but surely emerging from their winter hibernation. Now, if you’re anything like me, even the slightest glimpse of sunshine will have you stuffing clothes into a (questionably sized) hand luggage bag and Googling ‘cheap flights anywhere’.

Mar 24, 2024 | uk.knews.media | Matt Lloyd-Rose

For five years, comedian Tom Houghton lived with his dad, who happened to be an inhabitant of one of the world’s best-known buildings, the Tower of London. Here, Tom tells us 10 things you can only fully appreciate once you’ve lived in a moated fortress with an enviable postcode. KEYS: Yes, the Tower has a famous locking up ceremony, but I never actually needed keys to get in and out of myself.

Mar 24, 2024 | uk.knews.media | Matt Lloyd-Rose

Your weekly Londonist roundup, featuring Londony news and features. Aslef members say they’re ‘working harder and longer for less’. The best events in London this month. The beauty of the capital’s social housing. Adam Dant is at it again. Italian Terraces will also be restored and replanted with wildflowers. Clifftop fortresses to grand country piles. Disruption double whammy. When London was behoved to de-hoof. End of Ramadan marked in style. What as tall as six Nelson’s Columns?

Mar 22, 2024 | londonist.com | Matt Lloyd-Rose |Matt Brown

A former volunteer police officer describes his experiences on the streets of Brixton. Matt Lloyd-Rose was a primary school teacher in South London. When he left the classroom, he became a volunteer police officer in the same area. Into the Night is his account of his nightshifts with the Met Police. It's a cracking read, deeply rooted in the Brixton-Clapham-Stockwell area.