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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

To get to the Yard theatre, emerge from Hackney Wick station on what we now call the Mildmay line, scratch your head, look right, venture forth and then turn left between scruffy uprights into what ...

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 ...