Although Paris’s capitalisation overtook London’s in late 2022, the City of London is still Europe’s leading financial centre. Understanding why will require that we look beyond stock indices.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on London
Displaying 1 - 20 of 262 articles
In the Charitable Corporation Scandal, a group of politically connected directors leveraged the company’s altruistic image to attract investors – before raiding the funds to prop up other ventures.
As states and nations struggle to regulate growing AI use, municipal authorities are often leading the way. An emerging paradigm known as AI Localism can help us better define the way forward.
An award-winning photographer reflects on iconic images of the late monarch and pictures a nation in mourning
These maps have gone viral – here’s what they owe to 19th century cholera campaigns.
The move follows recent detections of poliovirus in London’s wastewater.
This brainy feminist romp of a novel, loved by Rachel Cusk and Maria Semple, is often compared to Brideshead Revisited. But Carol Lefevre says it’s more like a sexy, sweary version of Nancy Mitford in 1960s London.
The party has long dominated but the scale of the lead raises questions about why the Conservatives are experiencing such unprecedented unpopularity.
Cleaning and reoxygenating the river Thames has helped its biodiversity surge, but there’s still more to be done to make it healthy.
The deadline for formal bids to buy Chelsea FC is March 18. Expect some very rich US businessmen to be in the running.
Canadians need to rethink their relationship to the pandemic by learning to live in a state of continual disaster for the foreseeable future.
Elite employers have created an atmosphere where workers constantly seek to be as busy as possible. Families are often the first casualty of this culture.
London was rated 2021’s most congested city.
Several groups are going to be disproportionately affected when the £70 billion scheme comes to an end.
Pop-up spaces can be successful, they just need to be better thought through and created with urban ecology in mind rather than economics.
New data shows the recent damage to UK’s prized services sector – and potentially to Europe as a whole.
Filing terrorism charges in the London attack marks the first time in Canada investigators have done so in an Islamophobia case.
Four members of a family were killed in a hate crime — only the nine-year-old son survived. Islamophobia has created a culture of hate in Canada that threatens those who are perceived as Muslim.
Conservative rival Shaun Bailey gave the mayor a much harder fight than expected.
The choice between Sadiq Khan and Shaun Bailey comes down to two opposing views of what transport is for – and how to fund it
Top contributors
-
Researcher in Transport Policy and Governance, UCL
-
Reader in Human Geography, Royal Holloway University of London
-
Associate Tutor, University of Surrey
-
Senior Lecturer in the Dept of History & the American and Canadian Studies Research Centre, University of Birmingham
-
Professor and Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
-
Professor In Criminology, Staffordshire University
-
Professor of Global Urban Politics and Director, Melbourne Centre for Cities, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
-
Professor of Ideology and Discourse Analysis, University of Essex
-
Professor in Public Policy, De Montfort University
-
Professor of Urban Economics and Social Statistics and Co-Director of the CDT in Data Analytics & Society, University of Sheffield
-
Lecturer in Public Policy, Queen Mary University of London
-
Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Glasgow
-
Associate Professor in Security and Crime Science, UCL
-
Honorary Professor of Transport Studies, UCL
