London

London

London skyline featuring a new skyscraper.
The sky-high battle over the City of London’s next skyscrapers

The Square Mile is home to an ever-growing number of tall buildings, but heritage bodies like Historic England are not making investors’ lives easier

Privately educated dancer in Gaza protest at Royal Opera
Privately educated dancer in Gaza protest at Royal Opera
People passing through metal detectors at the Notting Hill Carnival.
Police to use facial recognition cameras at Notting Hill Carnival
Crime
Street view of Denmark Street, London.
Denmark Street and the battle for the soul of London’s Tin Pan Alley
Dog licking cake at a picnic.
London’s first ‘cake picnic’ welcomes hundreds of bakers — and a happy dog
Lambeth Town Hall in London at night.
Dim idea? Debt-ridden council eyes £4m lights scheme to cut emissions
Peter Sweeney, a long-serving doorman at The Goring Hotel, stands outside the entrance.
SKETCHES OF LONDON
After 60 years, the Goring’s doorman has some stories to tell
Illustration of the Tower of London next to a skeleton unearthed from the ground.
Biggest dig in 40 years suggests plague hit Tower of London
History
Street view of Denmark Street, London.
Denmark Street and the battle for the soul of London’s Tin Pan Alley
Street view of Denmark Street, London.
Denmark Street and the battle for the soul of London’s Tin Pan Alley
Dog licking cake at a picnic.
London’s first ‘cake picnic’ welcomes hundreds of bakers — and a happy dog
Dog licking cake at a picnic.
London’s first ‘cake picnic’ welcomes hundreds of bakers — and a happy dog
Lambeth Town Hall in London at night.
Dim idea? Debt-ridden council eyes £4m lights scheme to cut emissions
Lambeth Town Hall in London at night.
Dim idea? Debt-ridden council eyes £4m lights scheme to cut emissions
Peter Sweeney, a long-serving doorman at The Goring Hotel, stands outside the entrance.
SKETCHES OF LONDON
After 60 years, the Goring’s doorman has some stories to tell
Peter Sweeney, a long-serving doorman at The Goring Hotel, stands outside the entrance.
SKETCHES OF LONDON
After 60 years, the Goring’s doorman has some stories to tell
Illustration of the Tower of London next to a skeleton unearthed from the ground.
Biggest dig in 40 years suggests plague hit Tower of London
History
Illustration of the Tower of London next to a skeleton unearthed from the ground.
Biggest dig in 40 years suggests plague hit Tower of London
History
London skyline featuring a new skyscraper.
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London life

Food and drink

Wine bottles in a wine cellar.
Inside London’s secret wine cellars
FIRST PERSON
13 burgers in ten minutes? How I fared in the £5,000 challenge
Rewriting Orwell’s rules for the perfect pub — with London’s best landlord

Culture

Stanley Tucci and Felicity Blunt at the premiere of Netflix's *The Electric State*.
INTERVIEW
Felicity Blunt on Barnes, books and why London will always inspire
‘Dickens would have choked with rage about the cost of theatre today’
Why Shakespeare’s Globe is still the best-value night out in London

Property

Family portrait in front of their home.
‘We don’t need this big house any more’ — the rise of the early downsizer
HOUSE HISTORIES
Live in the garden suburb that sparked a creative revolution
‘Letting agents charged me £6,156 for next to nothing’

City breaks

A guest room at Ham Yard Hotel, Soho, one of the best boutique hotels in London
The loveliest boutique hotels in London for a stylish city break
These are London’s best hotels for families, ideal for a city break
16 of the coolest hotels in London

Food and drink

Wine bottles in a wine cellar.
Inside London’s secret wine cellars
FIRST PERSON
13 burgers in ten minutes? How I fared in the £5,000 challenge
Rewriting Orwell’s rules for the perfect pub — with London’s best landlord

Culture

Stanley Tucci and Felicity Blunt at the premiere of Netflix's *The Electric State*.
INTERVIEW
Felicity Blunt on Barnes, books and why London will always inspire
‘Dickens would have choked with rage about the cost of theatre today’
Why Shakespeare’s Globe is still the best-value night out in London

Property

Family portrait in front of their home.
‘We don’t need this big house any more’ — the rise of the early downsizer
HOUSE HISTORIES
Live in the garden suburb that sparked a creative revolution
‘Letting agents charged me £6,156 for next to nothing’

City breaks

A guest room at Ham Yard Hotel, Soho, one of the best boutique hotels in London
The loveliest boutique hotels in London for a stylish city break
These are London’s best hotels for families, ideal for a city break
16 of the coolest hotels in London

Sketches of London

Brompton World Championships riders in London.
Wheelies and waistcoats at the Brompton world championship
PATRICK KIDD | SKETCHES OF LONDON
I took my son on a private tour of London’s ‘other’ zoo
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More London

Jul 21, 2025
Woman in floral dress holding a balloon that says "Hope".
Mother in fatal fall was fighting ex-fiancé over £2.7m home

Rachel O’Hare, who fell from a high-rise block, was suing her former partner, an antiques dealer with celebrity clients, for ownership of their Georgian home

The Times
Jul 20, 2025
Large brick house in London reportedly purchased by Roman Abramovich.
Billionaire to list £250m Chelsea manor as ‘UK’s gone to hell’

Norwegian shipping magnate John Fredriksen is off to the UAE, vacating one of London’s most valuable homes

The Sunday Times
Jul 19, 2025
Illustration of people dining at an outdoor restaurant.
CHARLOTTE IVERS
Lupa restaurant review: a terrific trattoria from a White Lotus star

The actor Theo James has opened a Roman restaurant in Highbury. Charlotte Ivers joins him for some ‘remarkable’ porchetta

The Sunday Times
Collage of suspect photos and related images connected by red string.
Meet the teen machete thief convicted of 32 offences by age 18

Zacariah Boulares taunted police, threatened to behead Aled Jones and boasted on the BBC. Today we chart a life of crime that started at 12

The Sunday Times
Jul 18, 2025
Humphrey Ker and Adeel Akhtar in a scene from The Estate at the National Theatre.
FIRST NIGHT
A sweaty debut play at the National Theatre pops the Westminster bubble

In Shaan Sahota’s sometimes crude debut play, at London’s National Theatre, there are sharp asides on the narrow social background of Britain’s parliamentary class

The Times
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Jul 16, 2025
Joan Collins at a press day in Mallorca.
London has been invaded by dangerous e-bikes, says Joan Collins

The actress, 92, said cyclists ‘care not for road rules, pedestrians, safety, or anyone but themselves’

The Times
A person looking through the closed blinds of an Aesop shop.
Aesop and Whistles lock doors in opening hours as shoplifting soars

High street shops are adopting restrictive security measures to bring the ‘scourge of retail crime to heel’

The Times
Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, in Lagos, Nigeria.
EXCLUSIVE
Crackdown on international students is self-harm, says Khan

The mayor of London took a pointed shot at government immigration policy while on a trade mission to Africa

The Times
Jul 15, 2025
Kew Gardens Palm House and flowerbeds.
Palm House at Kew Gardens to shut for four years in net zero push

The gas boilers in Kew Gardens’ Victorian-era hothouse will be replaced with heat pumps and all 16,000 glass panes upgraded to improve energy efficiency

The Times
Cyclist riding through floodwater.
Schools and homes evacuated after Thames Water pipe bursts

A large area of south London was left without water for much of Tuesday — as the utility company’s boss says the water provider is still in ‘crisis mode’

The Times

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Jul 21, 2025
Mother in fatal fall was fighting ex-fiancé over £2.7m home

Rachel O’Hare, who fell from a high-rise block, was suing her former partner, an antiques dealer with celebrity clients, for ownership of their Georgian home

The Times
Jul 20, 2025
Billionaire to list £250m Chelsea manor as ‘UK’s gone to hell’

Norwegian shipping magnate John Fredriksen is off to the UAE, vacating one of London’s most valuable homes

The Sunday Times
Jul 19, 2025
CHARLOTTE IVERS
Lupa restaurant review: a terrific trattoria from a White Lotus star

The actor Theo James has opened a Roman restaurant in Highbury. Charlotte Ivers joins him for some ‘remarkable’ porchetta

The Sunday Times
Jul 19, 2025
Meet the teen machete thief convicted of 32 offences by age 18

Zacariah Boulares taunted police, threatened to behead Aled Jones and boasted on the BBC. Today we chart a life of crime that started at 12

The Sunday Times
Jul 18, 2025
FIRST NIGHT
A sweaty debut play at the National Theatre pops the Westminster bubble

In Shaan Sahota’s sometimes crude debut play, at London’s National Theatre, there are sharp asides on the narrow social background of Britain’s parliamentary class

The Times
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Jul 16, 2025
London has been invaded by dangerous e-bikes, says Joan Collins

The actress, 92, said cyclists ‘care not for road rules, pedestrians, safety, or anyone but themselves’

The Times
Jul 16, 2025
Aesop and Whistles lock doors in opening hours as shoplifting soars

High street shops are adopting restrictive security measures to bring the ‘scourge of retail crime to heel’

The Times
Jul 16, 2025
EXCLUSIVE
Crackdown on international students is self-harm, says Khan

The mayor of London took a pointed shot at government immigration policy while on a trade mission to Africa

The Times
Jul 15, 2025
Palm House at Kew Gardens to shut for four years in net zero push

The gas boilers in Kew Gardens’ Victorian-era hothouse will be replaced with heat pumps and all 16,000 glass panes upgraded to improve energy efficiency

The Times
Jul 15, 2025
Schools and homes evacuated after Thames Water pipe bursts

A large area of south London was left without water for much of Tuesday — as the utility company’s boss says the water provider is still in ‘crisis mode’

The Times