My first year in London: Hannah Burke
"Everybody talks about how the tap water in Scotland tastes better, but nobody talks about the limescale down here…"
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The data centres stopping new housing in London’s poorest borough
Plus: local residents fight Wimbledon's expansion plans and the Met asks football clubs to cough up
The government spent millions on a plan to house London’s homeless. Then it all went wrong.
“It was a good year and a half that we were doing absolutely nothing”
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How Lime squeezed out the Santander bike
"Boris Bikes" were supposed to be London's cycling future. This is how a private company supplanted them.
Young, successful — and far right
What leads a growing number of the capital's fresh-faced professionals to discuss fascist ideology at a Central London pub? Harry Shukman goes undercover to find out.
City Hall gave a £1.6mn grant to a university after it employed the mayor’s wife
The record subsidy was supposed to create hundreds of green jobs across East London. But 18 months later, has it had any impact?
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Hannah Williams
Hannah is a feature writer and critic whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Financial Times.
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Andrew Kersley
Andrew has done reporting and investigative journalism for the Observer, the Sunday Times, Vittles and Private Eye.
