The Latest Breaking News from London

Fourteen homes and housing developments have all been recognised for architectural excellence

In an update on Britain’s catastrophe of good taste, Clarendon Fine Art shops are categorically booming. I mean those galleries on every high street flogging ‘art’ of the fake Andy Warhol soup can spray-painted neon green with a Chanel logo for 10 grand variety.

Lee Byer has been detained indefinitely in a mental hospital after stabbing to death popular pensioner Thomas O’Halloran in West London

Sometime around their late thirties and early forties, something happens to each London generation. A fundamental division emerges between those who flit the city for the coast and those who stay. The old ravers head to Margate. The gays to St Leonards. Fancy types that need at least one boutique…

Monet’s masterpiece flees the National Gallery, Marc Quinn plants himself in Kew and the Tate honours female artists – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian won the radio and podcast category at the 2024 Amnesty International UK Media Awards, announced during a ceremony in London yesterday (Thursday 9 May).

Singer Shaznay Lewis belts out bangers at Lucky Voice, tucks in to The Meatball at Lavo and would love to wake up to the views from Alexandra Palace

Dozens of activists gathered at a south London hostel after reports migrants living there are due to be moved to the Bibby Stockholm barge.

In Brixton are codfish fritters on one corner, Japanese pancakes on another