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I’m young, talented, ambitious and poor — is London the right place for me anymore?

I’m sorry to remind you, but it’s been just over five years…

Anjali Yadav By Anjali Yadav

You may not like billionaires like Lakshmi Mittal, but London needs them to stay – and so do you

The lights are not always on at the vast mansion known locally…

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Machete attacks and broad daylight stabbings — London’s knife crime is out of control, but we ignore the causes

Pennyfields Park in Poplar may have an appealing name, but yesterday, it…

Mona Porwal By Mona Porwal

The real cost of our courts crisis: Has there ever been a better time to be a criminal in Britain?

Shoplifting has soared to epidemic levels, with reports of 17,000 incidents a…

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Prince Harry’s charity sentebale has exploded: Why can’t he seem to escape tragedy?

Memory and charity are fickle things, as the poor prince keeps finding…

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Rachel Reeves clings on for dear life – but if this spring statement fails, she’s out

Far from improving, Britain’s economic outlook appears to be worsening by the…

Mona Porwal By Mona Porwal

I can’t believe young Londoners are killing and maiming our wildlife with catapults but facing No consequences

It’s April 2024, and I am bent over a bleeding pigeon. Beneath…

Anjali Yadav By Anjali Yadav

Tom Newton Dunn: Rachel Reeves’ spring statement is turning Labour into a recruiting agency for reform

Jean-Claude Juncker was a Marmite politician—you either admired his blunt honesty or…

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Sir Lindsay Hoyle: Where did it all go so wrong for the speaker of the house of commons?

Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons, now finds…

Mona Porwal By Mona Porwal

I’m the chair of disability charity scope, and I may be asked to step down for what I’m about to say

Last week, despite strong opposition from more than 80 Labour backbench MPs,…

Anjali Yadav By Anjali Yadav