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“I thought I was in heaven.” How residents actually feel about the deadliest estate in Britain.

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

Back in 1961 the Brandon estate was meant to revolutionise social housing. Then its reputation declined. Our Saturday stories are free for all to read — but we can only produce this kind of work with your help. If you're a fan of today's piece, please do consider becoming a paying member. They were still building the Brandon estate when Barbara Finney moved in. She remembers thecorrugated-iron skeletons and rubble left over from the Blitz. She moved here when she was two. She’s now 67.
Black Panthers, Gucci bags, and Hollywood stars: my night at London's strangest art opening

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

Dear Londoners — the museums are preparing to welcome the summer-holiday goers into their galleries, the theatre producers are working to accommodate the coaches on Shaftesbury Avenue and the publishers — well, it's nearly time for the publishers to put on their out of offices and go on holiday for the rest of summer, as is traditional. But more importantly, it's high time for your next culture edition.
The ice cream van that cost Greenwich council £47,000

1 week ago | the-londoner.co.uk | El Hunt

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The maverick who built London's best club

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

Having almost exhausted his crumpled packet of Marlboro Golds, Jan Khushi Mohammed is standing behind the bar at Venue MOT, idly regarding his tabletop slushy machine, when the door swings open. It’s Keanu Burrell, a marketing manager for Red Bull. Something’s wrong. Burrell points towards a fridge. “Oh come on man!” he says, with the resigned annoyance of an exhausted parent.
15 penguins are trapped in a Southbank basement. This is the plan to free them

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

An activist, a journalist and an MP walk into the London Aquarium. A colony of Gentoo penguins walk out Our Saturday stories are free for all to read — but we can only produce this kind of work with your help. If you're a fan of today's piece, please do consider becoming a paying member. In the labyrinthine basements that spread like roots below the London County Hall building, there’s a windowless room.
The great chicken shop war

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

Inside Morley's secret court campaign to crush its competitors and build a city-wide monopoly Two months ago, punters with a hankering for spicy wings were confronted by a peculiar sign at a Metro’s chicken shop in Ladywell; a printed sheet of A4 in a see-through plastic binder, taped to the door. “The High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal” it decried, in huge black font, “have found that Metro’s have infringed on Morley’s trade marks”.
To catch a hooligan

4 weeks 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 month 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 month 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?

1 month 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.