On London is run by Dave Hill, formerly the Guardian's award-winning London commentator, and written by him and an array of fellow Londoncentrics.It aims to improve the quality of coverage of London politics, development and culture.

Dec 31, 2024 · London as a place, a society and the big engine of the national economy entered 2024 still recovering from the pandemic and changed by it in ways that weren’t yet clear. Its people’s fortunes were mixed and its governance bodies were hoping for a better deal from a new national government later in the year. […]

This website was launched on 1 February 2017 by me, award-winning former Guardian London commentator Dave Hill. I run and edit the site. Its goal is to provide the best possible news, analysis and commentary about the UK capital’s politics, development and culture. OnLondon carries articles by a wide range of contributors who disagree about […]

1 day ago · Sir Sadiq Khan will today pledge to “continue to make the case” for having deeper ties with the European Union and for “being bold when it comes to closer alignment” in the context of what he will call “the rise of an intolerant and anti-democratic populism” and “trade wars and tariffs posing a real threat to international affairs”.

Feb 8, 2025 · In July 2021, I went to Marble Arch in order to ascend the newly-opened Marble Arch Mound, Westminster Council’s well-intended but disastrous attempt to draw visitors back to a West End that had been hammered by the pandemic.. The friend I had arranged to meet was on the pavement outside Marble Arch station, and I crossed the road to join him.

Feb 1, 2025 · This website was launched by me in a more rudimentary form on 1 February 2017 as a place where I could continue to write about the politics, places and people of London in the way I wanted to, having previously been the Guardian’s self-publishing London commentator since 2008. Today, eight years on, OnLondon.co.uk is an established, multi-contributor journalism website providing coverage of ...

Jan 27, 2025 · Last year, the City of London Corporation announced that its plans to relocate the capital’s trio of wholesale food markets to a new, consolidated site beside the Thames at Dagenham Dock would not be going ahead after all and that, far from sticking with the status quo instead, Smithfield (meat) and Billingsgate (fish) would be closing anyway. It was decided that only New Spitalfields in ...

3 days ago · London’s first election of 2025 took place in Barnet’s Burnt Oak ward on Thursday. Burnt Oak lies just south of Edgware on the western border of a borough that Labour gained from the Conservatives in May 2022.But although Barnet is new to Labour control, Burnt Oak is one of the party’s traditional strongholds there.

Dec 23, 2024 · London’s boroughs do not expect local government finance settlements to be warming seasonal gifts. Rather, they anticipate these annual pre-Christmas arrivals being metaphorical pins that will burst any balloons of festive hope naively inflated in civic centres and town halls. They prepare responses expressing tempered disappointment. Rarely does that effort go to waste. The national […]

Jul 19, 2024 · London’s population reached a historic high of 8,945,300 in the middle of last year, according to new estimates released by the Office for National Statistics.After slower growth at the end of the 2010s and a slight decline between 2019 and 2021, the number of people living in the city rose by 0.9 per cent – around 75,000 – between 2022 and …