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To catch a hooligan

5 days ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Miles Ellingham

I’m standing alongside football policing officers in the West Ham London Stadiums’ CCTV panopticon, watching operators meticulously replaying a clip of a fan in an attempt to discern the difference between an outraged waving gesture and a Nazi salute. We’ve been granted access to this room, but aren’t allowed to photograph its interior, so I’ll attempt to describe it to you. Imagine a room where everything happens all at once and nothing passes by.
Are the super rich really leaving London?

1 week ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Hannah Williams

The mansions of London are empty, the penthouses barren. There are no grand parties now, no talk of business deals ringing off the marble, no private chefs slicing Wagyu in the second kitchen, deftly separating meat from bone. The artworks have been returned to their temperature-controlled storage units, or else shipped to New York, Basel, Singapore; the supercars sleep soundly in their garages.
The little Italian job

1 week ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Miles Ellingham

Holy water, incense and mea culpas. An old man in a brown flannel jacket unfurls into a standing position and begins to strike his chest before shrinking back into the pews. “Confesso a Dio Padre onnipotente e a voi, fratelli, che ho molto peccato.” Father Andrea Fulco moved to London from Lazio roughly a decade ago, he’s well known around here. “I confess to God the Father almighty and to you, brothers, that I have sinned greatly”.
“Headphone dodgers” are taking over London transport. Should we ban them?

2 weeks ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Andrew Kersley

It’s a sweltering Tuesday afternoon when we board the 36 from Queen’s Park to New Cross and settle on the top deck. It’s only a few minutes before a man gets on, sits in the front seat and initiates a loud, headphoneless video call before aimlessly scrolling Facebook videos with the sound on. Under a new proposal from the Liberal Democrats, this kind of behaviour would be an offence, punishable by a £1,000 fine.
How a charity founded to solve the housing crisis became one of London’s worst landlords

2 weeks ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Andrew Kersley

Bruce Kenrick had run out of hope. It was 1963, and the upstart housing charity he ran out of his cramped, dilapidated flat in Notting Hill had no money, despite desperately trying to raise funds from friends, connections and even a stall on the Portobello Road — all to no avail. A radical priest who had spent time helping the poor in Kolkata and East Harlem before coming to London, Kenrick was charming, energetic and had an uncanny knack for pulling people into his quixotic plans.
"It's like the hunger games": How to try for West End stardom

2 weeks ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Miles Ellingham

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Toby Carvery felled an ancient oak tree. So why is everyone blaming Spurs?

3 weeks ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Miles Ellingham

“This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most inexplicable, most devastating tree felling that I've seen." Thanks for reading today's story. You can now become a paying member of The Londoner, giving you access to all of our members-only stories. Until the end of April, we're running a forever 20% early-bird discount on memberships. So if you become one of our early backers, you'll always get 20% off your subscription, as an eternal gesture of thanks for your faith in us.
The death of County Kilburn

3 weeks ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Andrew Kersley

June 1974. The shops were empty, the pubs closed, and the record store, usually blaring traditional Irish anthems, was silent. The hushed crowds amassed in their thousands, filling every inch of pavement on the Kilburn High Road. Some had come all the way down from Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow — borrowing, without permission, minibuses from the schools where they worked and sleeping on the floors of local churches — just to catch a momentary glimpse of the body.
Sex, drugs and Soviet spy rings: welcome to Dolphin Square

4 weeks ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Huw Lemmey

London's most infamous estate is being modernised. But can it ever truly shake its reputation, wonders Huw Lemmey. If you haven't already, you can become one of our founding members by subscribing to The Londoner with our forever 20% early-bird discount. Click here to forever get an annual membership for the discounted price of £71.20, or click here to forever get a monthly membership for £7.16. Hurry though — this offer lasts only until the end of April. Dolphin Square is changing.
Digging up London

4 weeks ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Miles Ellingham

If you haven't already, you can become one of our founding members by subscribing to The Londoner with our forever 20% early-bird discount. Click here to forever get an annual membership for the discounted price of £71.20, or click here to forever get a monthly membership for £7.16. Hurry though — this offer lasts only until the end of April. London comes in layers. Each layer is rubble from the ongoing catastrophe we call history.