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Ben (he/him) @filosofical-140.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This was the scene at the Lord Morpeth in Bow this summer after a burst mains pipe flooded the pub. Three months on, the business is still waiting on compensation from Thames Water. 🧵

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sagal Abdi-Wali constantly emphasises her reputation in the charity sector. So you can imagine our surprise when her team refused to share which charities she's worked with. We did find some former colleagues, though - and they weren't exactly complementary.

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Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Labour's candidate in Holborn & St Pancras "has served the community for over a decade as a volunteer and trustee for local charities". But @the-londoner.bsky.social struggled to find these charities and Labour wouldn't send a list. Here's a fellow trustee from the one they found.

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali is the clear favourite to win the by-election in Keir Starmer's old MP seat this week. But speaking to current and former colleagues, @petercarlyon.bsky.social found many who questioned her much-publicised track record at Camden council and as a local charity worker.

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Sagal Abdi-Wali is favourite to beat Zack Polanski. Does her track record stack up?

It’s been a meteoric rise for Labour’s by-election hopeful. But local opinions on her credentials are mixed

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s been over a year since we first brought you the saga of the China Hall, a beloved boozer that was shuttered under owners linked to controversial billionaire developer Asif Aziz. Now there's been an update on the case. www.the-londoner.co.uk/developer-ch...

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A developer tried to shut a Rotherhithe pub. Now a court has ordered them to save it

Plus, the London boroughs bracing for mega council tax rises, how Nelson Mandela got embroiled in the Holborn by-election and fake newspapers being handed out to voters

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Andrew Kersley @andrewkersley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dozens of autistic kids were assaulted and locked in cells in vomit and urine-stained clothes for hours at a London school. People tried to get the local council to stop it, but for years they refused. Please read my new @the-londoner.bsky.social investigation:

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Dozens of children were abused at a Walthamstow school. Why didn’t the council stop it?

Autistic and learning disabled pupils were assaulted, left in soiled clothes and locked in isolation cells for hours at Whitefield school. Parents are now suing the school and the council

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wake up dead mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Absolutely horrifying story

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

SEND children were assaulted, left in soiled clothes and locked in isolation cells for hours at school in East London. Parents and officials tried to warn Waltham Forest council about it, but they were ignored. Read @andrewkersley.bsky.social's investigation

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Dozens of children were abused at a Walthamstow school. Why didn’t the council stop it?

Autistic and learning disabled pupils were assaulted, left in soiled clothes and locked in isolation cells for hours at Whitefield school. Parents are now suing the school and the council

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Marc Francis @marcfrancisth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Last year's excellent piece by @andrewkersley.bsky.social provides context to the "with immediate effect" departure of Notting Hill Genesis' Chief Exec on Monday. Who could have guessed getting someone in from Foxtons would result in tenants and shared owners receiving an even worse service?!

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hot candidates, collapsing homes and a failed attempts to cancel party conference. @andrewkersley.bsky.social spent the last week getting inside access to the Labour and Green campaigns as they vie to take Keir Starmer's old parliamentary seat next week.

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Should the Greens be written off in Holborn and St Pancras?

Collapsing homes and hot candidates: We get inside the campaigns in London’s most anticipated political race

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Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm SO late to this (*sends apologetic glance to my inbox full of unread newsletters*) but this was a 10/10 read

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why do the corpses of dead cats and dogs keep getting found in a West London canal? And which iconic London bridge is now at risk of semi-permanent closure by 2029? All that and more in today's briefing: www.the-londoner.co.uk/waterloo-bri...

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Another London bridge is falling down

Plus, a £50m Euston revamp and we exclusively uncover why dead dogs and cats keep washing up in a Brentford canal

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In April 2025, the businesses of Gabriel’s Wharf were told 2026 would be their last year of trading. Since then, the relationship between tenants and landlords has fallen apart. So why is a community non-profit bulldozing this artsy South Bank market? www.the-londoner.co.uk/gabriels-wha...

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Why is a community non-profit bulldozing this artsy South Bank market?

How things fell apart between a social enterprise landlord and the businesses of Gabriel’s Wharf

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People say Londoners are cold. But experts say what comes across as rudeness to some is a kind of “civil inattention” that’s necessary in big cities. We’re not mean – we’re just overwhelmed.

Another term for this behaviour is “civil inattention”, which sociologist Erving Goffman coined to explain how strangers in urban public recognise each other’s presence without engaging with them - ie. not staring or trying to chat. For years I have thought myself strange and rude for not making eye contact on the tube, even when people’s bodies are separated by just millimetres of stale air. But actually this is an act of self-preservation and respect.

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Andrew Kersley @andrewkersley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Obsessed with this piece by my v talented colleague @petercarlyon.bsky.social, in which the Met do an armed raid on an old woman's house to confiscate her cat and then give it to the RSPCA, who then kill it within weeks. Gets more insane with every sentence.

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‘I am Rita, the cat. I speak from heaven. I was killed by the RSPCA’

Kidnap or rescue? The troubling case of a feline fatality

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Crunch time for by-election candidates, the London flats that Londoners aren’t buying, and Cate Blanchett’s plea to theatre-goers to put their phones away. All that and more in today’s Monday briefing 🔗 www.the-londoner.co.uk/by-election-...

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Crunch time for by-election candidates

Plus: Cate Blanchett wades into the theatre phone etiquette debate, and the flats that Londoners aren’t buying

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's the most sought-after spot for a London food business. So who gets to stay in Borough Market? And who should have to go? www.the-londoner.co.uk/bread-ahead-...

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London’s most-hyped bakery faces off against London’s most-hyped market

Who is ‘too successful’ to sell their wares at Borough Market?

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

God I love The Londoner

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I just want to say this is an all-time great headline

It was east London’s hottest lesbian bar. Then a straight builder from Essex was forced to run it

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David Thomas MooahahahAHAHA! @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

every word of this is weirder than the previous words

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 17/09/2026

Each sentence after the first is even more bizarre.

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Courtney Love Lies Bleeding 🫦 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 17/09/2026

Goldies was a delight, had the weirdest location (mildly terrifying being eyed up smoking outside by guys working on cars at the garage opposite that seemingly never closed), and the stories i heard about its mismanagement are bananas. looking forward to reading this when i’ve got a break today.

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Andrew Kersley @andrewkersley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You think a story can only be so weird, then you find out about the plywood coffin hotels, legal threats to redditors and attempted art gallery break ins. Read my latest for @the-londoner.bsky.social, it's worth it:

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The Goldie Saloon saga gets much weirder

Plywood coffin hotels, missing money and legal threats to redditors: there's so much more chaos around the closure of east London’s most hyped lesbian bar

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is one of the rooms in a £30 a night illegal capsule hotel made of Plywood in Hackney. But what does it have to do with the closures of one of east London's most hyped lesbian bars? And a legal threat made to a subreddit?

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Clerkenwell should be exhibit A of corpsified London: a ward of law firms and architecture practices and Grade II-listed conversions, the kind of place that empties out at 6pm and stays that way. An area that has ‘closed on Saturday and Sunday’ signs." www.the-londoner.co.uk/clerkenwell-...

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London’s coolest neighbourhood is… Clerkenwell?

How a quiet quarter full of offices become the favoured hangout for in-the-know Londoners — and Charli XCX

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On Wednesday, we filled London Scottish House in Westminster for a brilliant @londonermag.bsky.social x @manchestermill.bsky.social panel asking the big question: Populist or pragmatist - who is the real Andy Burnham? 👇

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Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We had a fantastic @londonermag.bsky.social event in Westminster last night, brilliantly led by @bethrigby.bsky.social and featuring noted Burnham watchers like @helenpidd.bsky.social and @jackdulhanty.bsky.social. Thanks to everyone who packed out the room.

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Last year, the government said that driverless taxis would hit London streets by this spring. @andrewkersley.bsky.social spent two weeks getting the inside story of why they haven't. It's a saga of infighting at TfL, tech hiccups and a power struggle in City Hall.

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Why driverless taxis aren’t coming to London this year

Infighting at TfL, tech hiccups and a power struggle in City Hall: The causes are a lot more complex than you’d think

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

All over London, a movement of self-described futurists are plotting how to enhance the city. We spent a few weeks with them, before all the drama around the “optimistic picnic” kicked off.

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How have some empty black boxes allowed an office block in the City of London to avoid over £100,000 in tax? All that and more in today's Monday briefing: www.the-londoner.co.uk/tax-avoidanc...

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The office secretly using empty boxes to avoid paying tax

Plus, Emiratis flying in supercars, an e-bike executive speaks out and a macabre film showing

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Andrew Kersley @andrewkersley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is singlehandedly one of the strangest stories I've ever worked on for @londonermag.bsky.social It took months of investigating to uncover, and is a saga of luxury dog groomers, mummified cats and a mysterious Essex builder who ended up secretly running east London's hottest lesbian bar.

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The insane death of east London's hottest lesbian bar

Mummified cats, a 'demon twink' and the luxury dog groomer Maison De Floof: we unravel the mysterious death of Goldie Saloon

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Goldie Saloon was one of London's hottest queer bars. Then it mysteriously shut and its social media was taken over by an Essex dog groomer. Finding out why took months, and revealed an insane saga of mummified cats, secret deals and a man called “the demon twink”.

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The insane death of one of east London's hottest lesbian bars

Mummified cats, a 'demon twink' and the luxury dog groomer Maison De Floof: we unravel the mysterious death of Goldie Saloon

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Michael Sparrow moved 4,000 miles from Chicago out of an obsession with Bexley, London's most remote borough. We had to find out why. www.the-londoner.co.uk/bexley-micha...

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Why would anyone move 4,000 miles to Bexley?

He’s been a rockstar and an anti-corruption campaigner. Now he wants to save London’s most remote borough

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Less than a week to go until our biggest Londoner event yet - and final tickets are selling fast. ⏳ On Wednesday 9th September, we are putting five of the country’s sharpest political journalists on stage to answer a pretty massive question: Who is the real Andy Burnham? 🧵

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Populist or Pragmatist: Who Is the Real Andy Burnham? – The London Scottish Drill Hall, 95 Horseferry Rd, London, Wed 9 Sep 2026 - Hosted by The Londoner and The Mill For the best part of 20 years, An...

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Michael Sparrow has been a rockstar and an anti-corruption campaigner. Now he's moved 4,000 miles to become the self-appointed ambassador to London’s most remote borough. Why? www.the-londoner.co.uk/bexley-micha...

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Why would anyone move 4,000 miles to Bexley?

He’s been a rockstar and an anti-corruption campaigner. Now he wants to save London’s most remote borough

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Cliff Roney was an engineer at Thames Water for decades. Now he exclusively tells The Londoner the inside story of the decisions that have taken the company to the edge of collapse. www.the-londoner.co.uk/why-thames-w...

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How Thames Water fell apart, according to its own engineer

‘It was all about selling things off. Sell, sell, sell’

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Andrew Kersley @andrewkersley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Cliff Roney spent decades inside Thames Water. For @londonermag.bsky.social he gave me the inside story of the management decisions, rarely if ever discussed in the media before, that have taken the network to the brink of collapse.

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How Thames Water fell apart, according to its own engineer

‘It was all about selling things off. Sell, sell, sell’

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We've partnered with our sister paper in Manchester, which has spent years covering Andy Burnham while mayor, to host an event on what our new Prime Minister really thinks. There's just a few dozen tickets left so make sure to grab yours ASAP. www.the-londoner.co.uk/populist-or-...

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What does Andy Burnham really believe in?

Get your tickets to our special event

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CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

• And as public transport is both inferior and looked down on, people who really shouldn't be driving a car still have to • Delivery riders aren't helping much by riding hacked electric bikes across pedestrian precincts at high speed with an eye on two phones. To the locals, it's all the same /end

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CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

• The standard of driving has definitely worsened – distraction is largely to blame • Outer boroughs are more car-dependent, and the drivers are faster, more aggressive and less used to cyclists • Drugs are common, whether it's weed from a builder's van window or balloons in a dodgy Audi /2

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CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Some context (yes, I know it's anecdata) but I've been cycling around London since the '80s so not a total numpty. I've recently moved from inner to outer London, and am struck by a few things. Hopefully not literally /1

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fairly obviously, safe cycle routes will need to include floating bus stops some of the time! Or they won't be safe. bsky.app/profile/lond... is the piece. HT @londonermag.bsky.social for a well-researched corrective to current tabloid panic over floating bus stops, cyclists causing danger etc.

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ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Gosh yes - cycling in north London after getting used to central being so pleasant was terrifying and a lesson in how lopsided the infrastructure changes have been I suppose It's understandable that central came first but the demand is clearly there, everywhere else deserves improvements!

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