Author: Lowri Griffiths
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Five Pounds for a Coffee, and the North London Lifestyle Industrial Complex That Has Made It Feel Normal
Lowri Griffiths on flat whites, oat milk, and the slow conversion of every shopfront in Stoke Newington into a place…
On Being a North London Voter, Or, Why I Cannot Bring Myself to Care About the Council Election
Lowri Griffiths on local democracy, the great British shrug, and the politicians who keep posting leaflets I cannot bring myself…
On the Closing of the Pub at the End of My Road, and What It Says About How North London Has Changed
Lowri Griffiths on grief, gentrification, and the slow disappearance of the small civic spaces that hold a neighbourhood together The…
Compact Statement Home: A Lexicon of North London Estate Agent Lies, Translated for the Public Good
Lowri Griffiths on the dialect of the rental market, the art of the wide-angle lens, and the existential threat of…
