London landlords’ latest tactic: Inverse bidding wars
Plus: London’s most ‘given up on August’ street • What caused the big fire? • Dodgy shops raids to come • Buy a kayak, the floods are coming.
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Should London shut down in August?
Paris does it. The Italians do it. London is already seeing "shutdown by proxy". Why not just formalise it?
On the trail of a London gift shop owner
Plus: "Vertical drinking" politics • Robocop comes to Greggs • Robotaxis controlled by humans • London's festivals-in-parks mess
London's first month without rain
Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?
"If you're poor, you can sweat": One building's air conditioning divide
The struggles of residents in a London tower block sum up the challenges of heatwave-era London.
The Thames Water customers who can't shower in their own homes
Plus: The Oxford Street cable car that never was • Khan and the Met go to war over Palantir • The London council closing its children's water play areas in a heatwave
How to end rough sleeping in London
Plus: Hampstead Heath's new chain cafe review • Knightsbridge Ferrari rental scam • Can you spot the notable south London mum?
Sadiq Khan to the Lords
What's up with the mayor's peerage? • The Soho House founder and the women-only sculpture gallery facing eviction • In court for the sentencing of the TfL hackers
How American tipping culture came to London
Plus: Andy Burnham's copy-and-paste pledge to the capital • Dawn Butler's mayoral fundraiser • The ongoing hunt for a luxury children's meal.
We tried London's first driverless bus
Scroll to the end for: Berlin Wall latest • More on the TfL hacker's motive • Picturehouse Central fully reopens • London's Norwegian connections
The teenage millionaire hacker from Tower Hamlets who took down TfL
Traced through his takeaway order • Began playing Roblox • Allegedly handled £200m in Crypto • Based in his family flat near Bow Road station • One of the country's leading hackers