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Lewis Baston: Labour’s ‘Super Thursday’ by-election holds can’t disguise a slide
Thursday 28 November saw a Super Thursday of London borough by-elections. There were five vacancies in four wards in three ...
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Next stage approaches for Hackney Wick’s Yard theatre
To get to the Yard theatre, emerge from Hackney Wick station on what we now call the Mildmay line, scratch your head, look ...
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Dave Hill: Don’t grow tired of caring about London’s housing emergency
In theory, Britain’s Housing Ombudsman is not one of London’s emergency services: the office’s primary role is to resolve ...
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Dave Hill
On London is run by Dave Hill, formerly the Guardian's award-winning London commentator, and written by him and an array of fellow Londoncentrics. It aims to improve the quality of coverage of London ...
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Julie Hamill’s London: Writing where nobody knows your name
I can’t write at home. I know lots of writers can and do, but I’m not one of them. The slightest floorboard creak, dog wants out, noise from the radio, door bang, cough, sneeze or beep-beep-beep of a ...
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Richard Derecki: Lasting intrigue of London’s most notorious suburban spies
Between 1954 and 1961, operating from an unassuming bungalow at 45 Cranley Drive, Ruislip, Lona and Morris Cohen smuggled out ...
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Charles Wright: London’s net zero target is at risk. What should happen next?
When the government was told in July by the independent Climate Change Committee (CCC) that it was falling well short of its ...
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Dave Hill: Can a ‘liveable’ London street become a forbidding precinct?
Don’t yell at me. Don’t take offence. I’m just asking some questions in need of carefully-considered answers. My starting ...