Islington
The elitism lurking at the heart of the green movement
There’s a movement in the UK that is trying to block the building of essential new council housing. It is…
Opposites attract: Just Like You, by Nick Hornby, reviewed
Babysitters are having a literary moment. Following Kiley Reid’s debut Such a Fun Age, Nick Hornby is the latest author…
Bellanger review: a posh Islington restaurant for semi-ordinary people
Islington is a bellwether, and also a joke: the most unequal borough in London, where social housing leans against £4…
There’s one real way to stop gang crime: legalise drugs
Brutal, needless stabbings on our city streets will never cease until drugs are legalised
‘Not to worry, just a gang killing’: the mantra of the metropolitan middle classes
Another stabbing in my new neighbourhood, not with an axe or with a samurai sword this time, but a machete.…
Penelope Lively’s notebook: Coal holes and pub opera
I have been having my vault done over. Not, as you might think, the family strong room, but the place…
Martha Wainwright’s family affair
Martha Wainwright was keeping it in the family at the Union Chapel in Islington last week. Arcangelo, the singer-songwriter’s three-year-old…
