Looking forward to our big Andy Burnham event in Westminster tomorrow night, with esteemed guests like @bethrigby.bsky.social, @helenpidd.bsky.social, @patrickmaguire.bsky.social and @jackdulhanty.bsky.social. 10 tickets left, I'm told. Grab em. www.tickettailor.com/events/millm...

Select tickets – Populist or Pragmatist: Who Is the Real Andy Burnham? – The London Scottish Drill Hall, 95 Horseferry Rd, London

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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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...

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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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.

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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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”.

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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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...

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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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? 🧵

Select tickets – Populist or Pragmatist: Who Is the Real Andy Burnham? – The London Scottish Drill Hall, 95 Horseferry Rd, London

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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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...

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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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...

How Thames Water fell apart, according to its own engineer

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

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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.

How Thames Water fell apart, according to its own engineer

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

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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-...

What does Andy Burnham really believe in?

Get your tickets to our special event

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• 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

• 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

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

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.

London Cycling Campaign@londoncycling.bsky.social · 2w ago

What is killing & injuring people cycling in London? What has changed over the last few decades? Excellent @londonermag.bsky.social deep dive. To summarise: 1. LCC's Direct Vision lorry campaigning leading to Mayor @london.gov.uk action has cut fatal collisions. 2. TfL delivering more Cycleways...

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!

Teacher Vladimir Bimstone, was killed in November 1989 while cycling on Fulham Broadway. It was the tail end of an annus horribilis, which saw bike deaths in London peak. 37 years later, cycling fatalities have plummeted but serious injuries are up by 21% in one year. Why?

Excl: More people are commuting into central London via bike. But cycling infrastructure hasn’t caught up with them. Serious injuries have sky-rocketed by 21% in just one year. What's going on? We thought e-bikes would be to blame. We were wrong... It's a story about commuting.

What is killing & injuring people cycling in London? What has changed over the last few decades? Excellent @londonermag.bsky.social deep dive. To summarise: 1. LCC's Direct Vision lorry campaigning leading to Mayor @london.gov.uk action has cut fatal collisions. 2. TfL delivering more Cycleways...

The Londoner@londonermag.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excl data analysis: cycling deaths in London have hit their second lowest - but serious injuries have sky-rocketed by 21% in just one year. What's going on? We thought e-bikes would be to blame. We were wrong... Here's what's actually going on 🧵

The first of what will hopefully many more great @londonermag.bsky.social events that are in the works right now. There's only a few dozen tickets left so make sure to grab one now before they all sell out.

Joshi Herrmann@joshih.bsky.social · 2w ago

Evan Davies on PM mentions an emerging “struggle between a radical Burnham and a realist Burnham”. It sounds like he’s marketing our @londonermag.bsky.social event, on precisely this theme. Which Burnham are we getting? www.tickettailor.com/events/millm...

Excl data analysis: cycling deaths in London have hit their second lowest - but serious injuries have sky-rocketed by 21% in just one year. What's going on? We thought e-bikes would be to blame. We were wrong... Here's what's actually going on 🧵

The reason London's cycling injury rates are increasing

Exclusive: Being pushed out to the suburbs is causing an explosion in serious injuries

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Evan Davies on PM mentions an emerging “struggle between a radical Burnham and a realist Burnham”. It sounds like he’s marketing our @londonermag.bsky.social event, on precisely this theme. Which Burnham are we getting? www.tickettailor.com/events/millm...

Select tickets – Populist or Pragmatist: Who Is the Real Andy Burnham? – The London Scottish Drill Hall, 95 Horseferry Rd, London

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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Andy Burnham's first month as prime minister has gone swimmingly. But tough decisions are about to start. Perfect timing them for our must-attend event on 9 September. We'll be asking who the *real* Andy Burnham is, answered by the people who've covered him most closely.

Select tickets – Populist or Pragmatist: Who Is the Real Andy Burnham? – The London Scottish Drill Hall, 95 Horseferry Rd, London

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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More staggering data from this story that 7 out 10 victims in unsolved murders are black. Shootings are very overrepresented in the capital's unsolved murders - and 84% of victims in unsolved shootings are black. The Met say shootings are challenging to investigate.

Black Londoners make up just 13.5% of the population, but 73.4% of unsolved Met murder cases. Their cases are almost twice as likely to go unsolved by the Met as their white counterparts. What's going on?

A month into his premiership, questions around Andy Burnham are only getting louder. What does he actually believe in? How does he lead when the spotlight is on Westminster? And what does a No 10 with a northern outpost really mean for the rest of the country? We’re hosting an event to find out.

London was promised torrential rain this week - all we got was a shower on Thursday. We asked gardeners of the capital's favourite green spaces how they're coping with the drought - and how it might change their patches forever.

The London gardeners trying to protect parks in a heatwave

Heatwaves have pummelled London's famous gardens. How are their stewards coping?

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It's the summer London turned yellow. Our grasslands are desert and the colour of a box blonde dye job without toner. But how are the people charged with keeping the capital's gardens alive coping? We head to Holland Park, Kew and Dalston to find out. Scroll for link 👇

Featuring @helenpidd.bsky.social, @patrickmaguire.bsky.social, @bethrigby.bsky.social and @jackdulhanty.bsky.social, chosen because they’ve produced some of the very best journalism on Burnham over the years. Hosted by @londonermag.bsky.social in Westminster.

Tickets for our Burnham event are SELLING FAST. Come along to watch five leading Burnhamologists stare into the soul of our new PM. www.tickettailor.com/events/millm... @londonermag.bsky.social

Have you heard about the turf war 50m below the Thames? Since 2022l, e-bikes have been clogging up the Greenwich foot tunnel, as footage from Reddit user FreazyWarr shows. Why? E-bike companies blame the council, the council blames the e-bikes. So we went into the war zone.