The UK’s largest hippie commune was on an island in the Thames
It hosted David Bowie, orgy rooms and 'Fuckbucket Flo'. So how did we lose the Eel Pie Hotel?
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How a Spitalfields blog became bigger than Keanu Reeves
Plus: a must-see Spanish master and a West End strike in our new culture edition
Inside the Barbican's 'Game of Thrones' power struggle
How the brutalist arts centre lost its artistic director — and its direction
Blitz: How London’s answer to Studio 54 defined an era
Big hair, big shoulders and even bigger egos. It was London's hottest venue, if you could get in...
The civil war inside the capital's most elite literary institution
Pivots at the prestigious London Library have sparked uproar
Tracey Emin asserts her genius with blood, guts and an unmade bed
Plus: a financial black hole at the National Gallery, must-see photographs of Jim Crow American South and the writer who burnt her own books
Tsars, filthy beds and murder in Earl's Court
Plus: a must-see exhibition and the play everybody's trying to get tickets for
How to adapt 'A Christmas Carol'
Plus: our picks for the festive season, a new museum-to-museum thoroughfare and no more Lambeth County Show, all in our culture edition
Why does London have so few statues of women?
Rom-com heroines, Crimean War nurses and suffragette activists: which members of the fairer sex have been given their dues by the capital?
'If you can’t sing, you can still shanty!'
They may not be merchant sailors. But the salty dogs of Greenwich's Sea Shanty Festival 2025 are loud — and proud.
Nudists, satanists and fake cat poo: Inside London’s underground cinema scene
The capital's rep cinema scene is flourishing. But can these micro theatres survive?
'You & I are Earth': How a 17th century plate became a globally beloved treasure
Found in a cesspit, the anonymous plate has made its way to luxury bags, tattoos and album titles — much to the bemusement of its curators
Champagne, humiliation and Leonardo DiCaprio: It's Frieze 2025
Going native at the art fair to end all art fairs
Back to the future at Oslo Court
Welcome to the art-deco apartment block home to the pink, carpeted heart of London’s traditional food scene
Is the Cockney extinct?
Newspapers are full of stories about the disappearance of London's historical East Enders. The truth is a lot more complicated