Month: May 2026
Stoke Newingtons New Restaurant Scene Is Brilliant And Slightly Alarming, And I Can Explain Both Halves
The food is, by any honest standard, excellent. The economic substructure that produces the food is, on careful examination, not…
The Northern Line Bank Branch Closure Has Made Strangers Of Us All
For three months we have been routing through Camden, through Charing Cross, through whatever sequence of replacement service the algorithm…
The Hampstead Heath Mixed Pond Access Wars Are Now In Their Third Year, And Somehow Still Escalating
What started as a routine governance dispute has produced, by my count, eleven public meetings, three QC opinions, and one…
The Crouch End Coffee Shop Saturation Has Reached Statistical Impossibility, And Yet They Keep Opening
By my count, there are now more independent coffee shops on Park Road than there are residents who actually drink…
North London Is Quietly Becoming Two Different Cities. The 2026 Council Tax Reassessment Is Mostly Why
For decades the same neighbourhoods contained vastly different economic lives. The reassessment has surfaced the difference in a way nobody…
In Defence of the North London Dinner Party, Which Is Not What You Think It Is
Lowri Griffiths on Why the Stereotype of the Islington Dinner Party Is Both True and Unfair and Why the People…
North London Property Prices Have Broken My Spirit and My Calculator
Lowri Griffiths on the Ritual Humiliation of Zoopla, the Rightmove Doom Scroll, and Why Stoke Newington Has Become a Punchline…
The Holloway Road at Seven AM: A Love Letter to the London That Guidebooks Decline to Cover
Lowri Griffiths on Morning Buses, Corner Shops That Have Everything, and the Specific Dignity of a City Getting On With…
The Labour Government’s First Year: What It Got Right, What It Bottled, and What Islington Is Currently Debating
Lowri Griffiths on the Specific Anxiety of Wanting a Government to Succeed While It Is Visibly Struggling to Do So…
The Gentrification Guilt Trip: On Being Part of the Problem While Writing About the Problem
Lowri Griffiths on the Specific Discomfort of Being a Journalist Who Covers London’s Housing Crisis From Inside a Neighbourhood That…









