It’s not enough to keep election promises, the latest thinking goes. People have to feel better too. “Change isn’t a few ...

There’s a German word, “dunkelflaute”, which translates as “dark doldrums” – periods when there is no wind or sun to generate ...

Dominic Nolan’s knotty crime novel, published three years ago, is largely set in the Soho of the capital’s pre-war, Oswald ...

In a recent piece about Hackney Wick’s Yard theatre, On London reported that more news about its future was expected soon.

I apologised to Daniel Francis, Labour MP for Bexleyheath & Crayford, when we met. My predictions for July’s general election contained a number of duff calls, but so blithely had I assumed that his ...

Nearly two years have passed since a senior member of a west London council strikingly observed to a gathering in Finchley ...

In all the years they’ve been doing my tax return, I’ve never visited my accountant’s offices in central London. Typically, I ...

Thames Water is in a mess, primarily of its own making. And next month looks like crunch time for the future of the ...

Thursday 28 November saw a Super Thursday of London borough by-elections. There were five vacancies in four wards in three ...

An autumn night in Camden Town, where, long ago, Kilburn and The High Roads played Dingwalls and a famous pet shop sold enormous snakes. The market was full of bongs back then. Maybe it still is. They ...