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Tomorrow The Times and The Sunday Times launches a new London newsletter - with news, features, recommendations, trivia and culture Sign-up here for our new, weekly showpiece of the best of our London journalism, available to subscribers and non-subscribers alike link.thetimes.co.uk/join/74t/signu…

I'll be doing a sort of mini restaurant review for every edition of this newsletter - either highlighting an exciting new opening or pointing you to somewhere you might have missed. If that sounds appealing please do sign up!

Beyond excited to announce I'm joining The Times next month to work for Wesmintster's best lobby team under Steve Swinford. I'll be taking charge of the daily politics newsletter, while also finding stories for the paper. Let's go!

The latest of my Sketches of London The Times and The Sunday Times is on preparations for Saturday's Trooping the Colour as the Coldstream Guards, in their 375th anniversary year, get the honour of leading the parade while George the horse takes centre stage for the last time thetimes.com/uk/london/arti…

An al fresco summer is coming.... just not to Soho Shoreditch, St Martin's Lane and bits of Brixton and Leyton are the first of the Mayor's pedestrianised 'summer streets' But Westminster is still saying no to Soho More from The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.com/uk/london/arti…

Other London coverage is available thetimes.com/london

The Times and The Sunday Times ran this piece linked to my new book. London's Statues of Women (Safe Haven Books) - and invited me onto Times Radio yesterday pm too. Thanks Andy Silvester, Tom Whipple & Felix Forbes Art UK Public Statues and Sculpture Association @Look_UpLondon Caroline Criado Perez thetimes.com/uk/london/arti…

Denmark Street is transformed. And not in the way you might expect. thetimes.com/uk/london/arti…

Letters Live has become a fixture in the literati’s calendar. Now you could have your own letter performed live on stage with a competition, Dear London. Click the link in the comments to find out more ⬇️

Sadiq Khan spox on Trump attack and Prez's visit to London “He’d see how our diversity makes us stronger not weaker; richer, not poorer. “Perhaps these are the reasons why a record number of Americans have applied for British citizenship under his Presidency." 💅

So where *did* London's parakeets come from? Kaya Burgess found out thetimes.com/article/b8d492…

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Notting Hill Carnival. The story from the start. thetimes.com/uk/london/arti…

The London Banana: Fact or fiction? thetimes.com/uk/london/arti…

So far at Mayor's Question Time we've spent approx two minutes on Tube strikes and 15, led by the Greens and Zach Polanski, on whether Gaza counts as a genocide.

Simpson's in the Strand is reopening - and the trolley will be back. Jeremy King, London's most renowned restaurateur, has teamed up with designer Shayne Brady to breathe new life into this genuine London icon They gave The Times and The Sunday Times the first look thetimes.com/life-style/foo…

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