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17
Oct
2026

The Fourteen Pound Sandwich Comes To Shoreditch: What It Costs To Eat, Drink And Watch The Football Here Now

A Shoreditch local journalist reads about British dinner parties ending at Sky Sports and London’s fourteen pound…

15
Oct
2026

Hoxton Square and the Summer the Artists Dressed as Clowns

Before the cocktail menus, a small East End square was the unlikely headquarters of British art’s noisiest…

15
Oct
2026

The Goodsyard: Sixty Years of Waiting on Shoreditch’s Biggest Empty Site

A railway depot burned down in 1964. The argument about what to build there has lasted longer…

15
Oct
2026

Columbia Road on a Sunday: How a Failed Victorian Market Became London’s Flower Street

The traders shout, the crowd shuffles and by three o’clock you can carry home a small jungle…

11
Oct
2026

Salt Beef at Three in the Morning: Brick Lane’s Beigel Shops and the Street That Keeps Changing

Two bakeries a few doors apart tell the whole history of an East End street that has…

11
Oct
2026

Four Hundred Years of Living Rooms: A Visit to the Museum of the Home

In a row of old almshouses on Kingsland Road, a free museum asks what home means and…

11
Oct
2026

Hackney’s New Mayor Promises a Full Investigation Into Who Owns Hackney, and Two Green Winners Could Not Take Their Seats: A Guide to the First Months

Landlord licensing, rent control powers and a land inquiry sit beside by-elections caused by the rules on…

10
Oct
2026

The Greens Took 42 of Hackney’s 57 Council Seats and Labour Fell From 50 to Nine: How a Landslide Happens on 43 Percent of the Vote

The 7 May result gave Zoe Garbett the mayoralty, handed Shoreditch and Hoxton to a new party,…

10
Oct
2026

A Pound on Every Arena Ticket: The Simplest Idea in Live Music, and Why It Is Taking So Long

Small venues spent 248 million pounds putting on music and took 131 million at the door, and…

10
Oct
2026

Boxpark Shoreditch Was Meant to Last a Few Years in 2011 and Fought a Closure Notice Into 2025: What Happened to the Shipping Container Mall

The pop-up mall on the Bishopsgate Goodsyard site housed more than 250 independent brands, and the sources…