The Latest Breaking News from Peckham

I often see murmurings on social media about how London is a joyless city. An uninspiring city. A city which closes early and stifles dreams. To some extent, these qualms aren’t imagined. London could well be freer — more continental in its dynamism and less rigid in function. But that…

Detectives say it is ‘sheer luck’ the shooting is not a murder investigation

A sense of connection with his native Sri Lanka was the unusual brief from tech entrepreneur Puli Liyanagama for his Victorian house in south London

Evening Standard analysis of key seats in London for the July 4 General Election

The flavour-packed classics here in Peckham are defiantly on the right track

Hot young writer Caleb Azumah Nelson tells Emma Loffhagen about how gentrification is changing Peckham, and why an incident with the Met shows the police still have a race problem

Kalabe Legesse was set upon by brothers Nah’shun and Nyran Thomas while on a call to a friend on a bench

Miatta Fahnbulleh is running for parliament – and, as a black female economist, hopes to broaden parliament’s outlook on ‘the rules of the game’

Video shows an apparently peaceful protest, with activists surrounding the coach with linked arms