Popular Insite on Life in London
I Tried London Padel Week And Discovered A Whole Sport Happening Quietly Under My Nose For Years – A London diary entry on the capital’s first city-wide padel festival, why I’d never even heard of the UK’s fastest-growing sport, and what it feels like to stumble into a new obsession at Wembley on a Wednesday
I Queued For The Big Ben Ticket Release And Realised I’d Turned Into The Kind Of Person Who Plans Her Month Around A Bell – A London diary entry on chasing tickets to climb the Elizabeth Tower, the capital’s punishing drought, and learning to love the small, slightly mad rituals that make this city feel like home
Westminster Council Wants To Ban “Vertical Drinking” And I Have Complicated Feelings About Standing Up With A Pint – A London diary entry on the council’s new licensing policy debate, the death of the neighbourhood pub, and what actually gets lost when a city tries to legislate how you hold your drink
Heathrow Losing Its Crown To Istanbul Made Me Weirdly Defensive Of An Airport I Actively Hate – A London diary entry on Heathrow slipping to second-busiest in Europe, London bus drivers running on empty, and the strange loyalty you develop toward the infrastructure that makes your life miserable
The Anthony Bourdain Biopic Sent Me On A Pub Crawl Of A City I Thought I Already Knew By Heart – A London diary entry on chasing down the drinking dens a food icon once endorsed, a fire shutting the M25, and rediscovering your own city through someone else’s old haunts