Author: Lowri Griffiths
North London Parks Under Siege: Green Spaces Shrinking as Development Pressures Mount, Nature Retreats Before Concrete
Parks Paved Over for Housing, Environmental Destruction Justified by “Urban Development,” Nature Loses to Profit Bohiney Magazine and The London…
Dalston Conversations – What Nobody Tells You About Gentrification When You’re in the Middle of It
Afternoon drinks with longtime Dalston residents reveals how neighborhoods change from the perspective of people being changed out of them…
Weekend at the British Library – Lowri Observes Quiet and Knowledge
A Saturday spent among readers pursuing knowledge, considering what libraries represent in an age of digital distraction Bohiney Magazine and…
Finsbury Park Afternoon – Notes on North London Ambition and Coffee
A stroll through the park reveals the texture of aspiration, decline, and the particular cruelty of incremental gentrification Bohiney Magazine…
Evening Commute Reflections – Tired Faces on the Victoria Line
Sixteen minute ride home contains hours of human exhaustion, condensed and moving through tunnels under London Bohiney Magazine and The…
Unemployment Line Philosophy – Waiting Among the Structurally Surplus
Three hours at the Job Centre reveals what economic policy looks like from below, where abstract economic principles meet human…
My Local Pub Has Been Replaced by a ‘Craft Beer Experience Venue’ and I Am Not Coping Well
Lowri Griffiths on the slow death of the North London boozer, the rise of the fourteen-pound pint, and what we…
The London Food Scene Has Peaked and I Say This as Someone Who Loves It Unreasonably
Lowri Griffiths on the forty-two-pound small plates, the waiting list for a restaurant she could not describe to her mother,…
TfL Has Raised Its Fares Again and I Have Run Out of Polite Ways to React
Lowri Griffiths on the annual ritual of London transport price increases, the philosophical question of what ‘value for money’ means…
In Defence of the London High Street, Which Is Having a Terrible Time and Still Worth Defending
Lowri Griffiths on why she refuses to order everything online despite the evidence that the high street is not meeting…
