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Ignore the advice of the freesheets handed out on the Tube. Why visit the hot spots in a city full of cool panoramic sanctuaries?

Laura Freeman

‘Occasionally one reads of an incident in this great metropolis so awful, so disturbing, that just for a moment one’s mental moorings are shaken’

Peter Whittle

'I'm not sure there has ever been a time in London when you chose where you lived on the basis of sexual preference'

Peter Whittle

How seriously should we take an Old Stoic who wants to reintroduce wild elephants to Britain?

Michael Mosbacher

People want homes, not the “housing units” offered by tower blocks, yet planners continue to sanction these unloved monstrosities

Harry Phibbs

The gemstone traders on London's Hatton Garden have witnessed huge changes in attitudes towards marriage, but diamonds are forever

Angela Levin

Boris Johnson should spend his second mayoral term reversing Ken Livingstone's legacy of inverse snobbery and interest group politics

Harry Phibbs

What is the Royal Geographical Society for — exploration or ‘post-socialist urban identities'?

Justin Marozzi

‘Having climbed halfway up a lamppost, a homeless guy in a pink skirt and a low-cut white blouse starts to hump it’

Tibor Fischer

US Election Week diary: New Yorkers and their attitudes towards the new president

Louis Amis

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