Author: Lowri Griffiths
Labour’s Housing Promise and My Actual Rent: A North London Reality Check
Lowri Griffiths does the arithmetic on 1.5 million new homes, planning reform, and what it means for someone currently paying…
The Islington Council Meeting That Nearly Broke Me: A Report From the Front Line of Local Democracy
Lowri Griffiths Attends a Council Planning Committee Meeting and Discovers That Local Democracy Is Alive, Functional, and Takes Four Hours…
Seven Things That Happened in Hackney This Week That Confirm Hackney Is Still Hackney
Lowri Griffiths Visits the Neighbour Borough and Returns With Observations About Oat Milk, Planning Applications, and the Specific Self-Satisfaction of…
The Overground Is Running Fine, Actually, and This Is Somehow the Most Suspicious Thing That Has Happened to Me All Week
Lowri Griffiths on Commuting Triumph, Rental Market Tragedy, and the Specific Joy of Finding a Seat at Finsbury Park Bohiney…
The Great North London Restaurant Audit of Spring 2026: Where I Ate, What It Cost, Whether I Would Go Back
Lowri Griffiths Reviews Five Restaurants in N4 Through N7, Discovers That Natural Wine Has Become Inescapable, and Finds One Genuinely…
On the Specific Misery of Flat Hunting in Zone 2 in May: A Personal Testimony
Lowri Griffiths Has Looked at 14 Flats in Four Weeks and Has Opinions About the Phrase ‘Chain Free’ That She…
The New Coffee Shop on My Street Has Opened and I Have Already Made It My Third Place Against My Better Judgment
North London Journal: How a Flat White and a Window Seat Became the Emotional Infrastructure of My Week By Lowri…
I Asked My North London Pub Quiz Team Whether London Is Still Liveable and the Results Were Not Comforting
Informal Survey of Eight Londoners Over Two Pints Each Produces Qualified Verdict on Whether the City Is Worth It By…
The Tube Strike Is Tomorrow and London Is Already in the Bargaining Stage of Grief
North London Journal: The Five Stages of Pre-Strike Preparation Have Been Completed and Now We Wait By Lowri Griffiths |…
My Local Gentrification Has Reached the Stage Where the Laundromat Is Now a ‘Artisanal Wash Bar’
North London Journal: When the Last Affordable Thing on the High Street Gets a Rebrand and a Premium Tier By…
