Month: October 2026
Love In King’s Cross: Dating In London’s AI Quarter When Spies Are Supposedly Flirting
A North London lifestyle journalist reads about warnings that foreign spies may use romance to extract AI secrets and looks…
The Average London Rent Is 2,716 Pounds a Month and Growth Has Slowed to 0.8 Percent: What Tenants and Landlords Can Take From Rightmove’s Latest Tracker
Advertised rents fell 0.7 percent in the final quarter of 2025, the lowest annual growth since 2020, while a flatshare…
A Pint Costs 10 Pounds in Mayfair and 6.55 Pounds on Average in London: What the Price of Beer Says About the Capital
The Morning Advertiser found hotel bars charging 10 pounds or more, the trade body says the real story is costs,…
A Weekend in London on Almost Nothing, Tested by Someone With Almost Nothing
Free museums, good parks and a firm rule about not sitting down anywhere that has a menu A Weekend in…
Thirty-Four and Still Labelling My Cheese: Life in the Grown-Up London Houseshare
Flat-sharing was meant to be a phase. For a generation of Londoners it has become the housing system Thirty-Four and…
Everyone in London Has a Second Job and Nobody Wants to Talk About It
Tutoring, dog walking, spare-room letting and the quiet rise of the capital’s after-hours economy Everyone in London Has a Second…
A Room of One’s Own Now Costs 1,200 Pounds: The Flatshare as a Way of Life
Sharing used to be a phase between university and adulthood, and in London it has become the standard arrangement for…
London Rent Is Now 2,290 Pounds a Month and We Are Supposed to Be Pleased It Only Went Up 2 Percent
The slowest rent growth in England is being reported as good news, which tells you everything about where the bar…
How to Eat Out for Fifteen Pounds and Help Keep Your Local Open
One in six hospitality businesses is said to be at risk, a restaurant meal is beyond most budgets, and there…
A Winter Wardrobe for Under a Hundred Pounds: Notes From the Cheap End
Primark has cut its prices and the charity shops are full, so I set myself a budget and went to…









