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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Should London legalise cannabis?
Plus: canal boat wars, more planes and one of the city's best mews pubs
Do those ‘We R Blighty’ fundraisers outside stations really deserve your cash?
The group says it raises money for homeless veterans. But we found it was pretending to be a charity and is accused of letting volunteers steal funds
The great chicken shop war
Inside Morley's secret campaign to crush its competitors and build a city-wide monopoly
Goodbye, green belt?
Plus: the end of one of London's oldest Vietnamese restaurants, LTN legal wrangling and Prince Harry's knock-a-door run
Is the King shutting down London’s oldest Indian restaurant?
Plus, a bad week for Peter Hendy and the Met’s Inspector Batman
Should London start taxing tourists?
It could raise tens of millions of pounds a year. But no-one can agree on how to do it.
Soho's AI-led noise crackdown
All quiet in the West End? Plus, bakery gentrification wars and the extinction of London's black cabs
Who's behind the anti-Musk tube ads?
Plus: discontent on Eel Pie Island and where to get the perfect £7 martini
Can Soho be saved?
The council has unveiled its vision for the centre of London’s nightlife. But with billionaire developers, rising rents and powerful residents’ groups, it might not be enough
Are we a threat to national security?
Plus: a profile in the New Yorker, conspiracy theories about The Years and more in your Monday briefing
Is the great London exodus really ‘over’?
Plus: unmissable pies and the truth behind TfL 'shortfall' scaremongering
Exclusive: Sadiq Khan launching new taskforce to try and save London nightlife
Plus: we start a fight at Lewisham Council and awkward retractions for the Daily Mail