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It was supposed to open in 2018. It opened in 2022. It cost twice the original estimate. And it actually works, which in London infrastructure terms is extraordinary.

Borough Market has been feeding London since before the Norman Conquest, more or less. Here is what to eat, when to arrive and how to make the most of it.

On 14 June 2017, 72 people died in a tower block in North Kensington. This is what happened, why it happened, and what London did and did not change afterwards.

The Thames Path runs 28 miles through London. Walk the best sections and you pass more of the city's history than any other route.

Smithfield is closing. The Boleyn pub is gone. The docks are flats. Billingsgate is moving east. The inventory of what remains of working-class London gets shorter every year.

Post-war London built estates that were genuine civic ambition. Then right-to-buy happened. Then the Heygate was sold to a developer. Here is what was lost and what remains.

Eight Royal Parks in the middle of one of the world's densest cities. Hampstead Heath still wild after 800 acres. The parks are London's best argument for itself.

London is supposedly a world food city. Tell that to someone living in outer Bexley or Havering. The restaurant boom is a zone 1 and 2 phenomenon with sharp edges.

Carnival did not begin as a party. It began as a response to racist violence. Knowing that changes how you experience two million people in the streets of W10.

Brixton is where Windrush settled, where the police and community broke in 1981, where Bowie was born and where London's story about race, class and community is still being written.