FA Cup Finals don’t always delight the eye, but yesterday’s Wembley encounter between Arsenal and Chelsea did the job. The better team won, which always helps if you’re a neutral, and the occasion as a […]
This article is written by Peter Murray, who is chairman of the influential New London Architecture forum, chairman of the executive committee of the London Society and a former editor of the Royal Institute of British […]
Supporters of Millwall FC will be delighted to have clinched a place in the League One play-offs, thanks to a dramatic win on Sunday. But their minds will also continue to be on that other important […]
The London Marathon is a great London occasion that showcases the city at its best. The first one was run in 1981 and today’s will be the 36th. During that time the event has grown […]
London’s celebrations of St George’s Day, put on by the mayor, are gentle affairs and a routine part of the Trafalgar Square calendar. But there has been a mild undercurrent of culture war about them from time […]
These days, Royal Arsenal is a big, block pattern of heavy duty heritage and Berkeley Group residential work-in-progress that rolls out from Woolwich Market to the downriver south bank of the Thames. It has a hard, […]
The prequel to Prime Suspect, that queen of TV police dramas which starred Helen Mirren as Metropolitan Police detective Jane Tennison, has had a poor reception from professional critics and the social media variety alike. […]
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