Fare-dodging in London is going down. So why do people think otherwise?
The psychology behind an 'epidemic'
Explainers
How to design a tube line
Plague pits, secret teams at TfL and a massive Bedfordshire warehouse: Making a new underground line is about a lot more than digging a big tunnel
New towns promise to solve the capital’s housing crisis. Can they?
Toxic waste, green belt meadows and some very irate locals
Is London’s council tax system fair?
A group of MPs are claiming that council tax is biased towards London. The truth is more complicated.
London's high streets all look the same. Why?
How Covid, private finance and reformed planning regulations led to an increasingly homogeneous city
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
Feel like your bus is getting slower? It probably is
The Londoner has crunched over 10 years of TfL data to reveal which routes have slowed the most
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”
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.