A Jamaican patois bible has been launched in London. Here's the Lord's prayer

London rents compared with wages 

London housing: The call goes out for lower rents. Chance of that happening, slim

 

City History: Filmmaker Si Mitchell brilliantly explains the Tottenham Outrage of 1909

 

Photographer Zed Nelson takes on gentrification in Hackney: A Tale of Two Cities

 

VIDEO: It's been raining, so raw sewage flows into the river Thames

 

"I'm told that cycling is safe...but my husband is dead" - Debbie Dorling speaks about losing her husband Brian

 

Snipe Likes: Capsule by Menomena

 

Weather and portents for the week ahead. It will rain, but new orchards augur well

 

Felix Kunze's portraits of Olympic and Paralympic volunteers

 

VIDEO: Oliver Lynton shows us the mesmeric craft of gilding

 

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Some popular articles from past years

  1. Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
  2. Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
  3. The five best places in London to have an epiphany
  4. 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
  5. London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
  6. An interview with Desiree Akhavan
  7. Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
  8. Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
  9. The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
  10. Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem