Andrew Kersley

'Claudio is Scamming' How an Italian charmer is duping the owners of London’s priciest properties

Great investigation by @coramazov.bsky.social about an amazing character and London's high-end sub-letting market
www.the-londoner.co.uk/claudio-is-s...

New Providence Wharf had everything — until the fires started How a series of blazes changed the lives of residents in a luxury east London block

New Providence Wharf is a luxury block in Canary Wharf with a gym, pool and valets.

It has also set on fire three times in the last four years.

I found out what's been going on for @londonermag.bsky.social

www.the-londoner.co.uk/new-providen...

Exclusive: Sheffield’s secret lab working on the UK’s next nuclear warheads “We already have a secure cell in Sheffield…”

Exclusive: Sheffield’s secret lab working on the UK’s next nuclear warheads

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/exclusive-sh...

‘Cutthroats and sell outs’: An editor’s note about Laurence Westgaph’s threats The historian has been threatening us with High Court action and trying to intimidate our sources and staff

‘Cutthroats and sell outs’: An editor’s note from me about Laurence Westgaph’s threats

The historian has been threatening us with High Court action and trying to intimidate our sources and staff ⬇️

www.livpost.co.uk/cutthroats-a...

TfL banned a Kneecap poster. So why did they run ads by a “cult”? Plus, fare evasion hits a record high, raves in Canary Wharf offices and a skateboarding duck

TfL banned a Tube ad by rap trio Kneecap saying it would cause “serious offence”.

So why did they run ads by the UCKG, an evangelical church that former members say is coercive, conducts conversion therapy and is like a "cult"?

Catch up on our story:
www.the-londoner.co.uk/tfl-banned-a...

£250k salaries and two kilos of caviar: Inside London’s new media arms race For decades Rupert Murdoch has dominated Fleet Street. Now he has a battle on his hands — and it’s getting expensive

“Marshall is so desperate to be invited to the dinner parties that he paid twice what it [The Spectator] was worth” 👀

It’s July and @hkatewilliams.bsky.social wanted a gossipy media read so here it is!

Murdoch vs Marshall is getting tasty - and expensive..

www.the-londoner.co.uk/250k-salarie...

The government spent millions on a plan to house London’s homeless. Then it all went wrong. “It was a good year and a half that we were doing absolutely nothing”

Six years ago the government offered £37m to a company promising to end London's homelessness crisis.

But after years of missed targets, whistleblower complaints and staff allegedly playing Xbox at work, this year it shut down.

Where did it all go wrong?

Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

Exclusive: The shelved plan to ban cars from Central London We’ve obtained a 25-slide document that suggests a very different future for the capital — so why was it quietly filed away?

EXCL: I got access to secret plans to ban cars from a chunk of Central London stretching from Elephant and Castle to Regent's Park.

My latest in @londonermag.bsky.social

www.the-londoner.co.uk/plan-to-ban-...

Thanks Chris!

How Lime squeezed out the Santander bike "Boris Bikes" were supposed to be London's cycling future. This is how a private company supplanted them.

I wrote about the behind the scenes story of how Lime beat out TfL's Santander Cycles to become London's new cycle hire overlord.

Read my inside story of lobbying, million pound council pay-offs and a cycling wild west in @londonermag.bsky.social

www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-lime-squ...

City Hall gave a £1.6mn grant to a university after it employed the mayor’s wife The record subsidy was supposed to create hundreds of green jobs across East London. But 18 months later, has it had any impact?

EXCL: The University of East London was given a £1.6m grant by City Hall, a record high for any uni, right after it hired the mayor's wife.

It promised the scheme would produce hundreds of green jobs. The number created so far? Just 14.

My @londonermag.bsky.social scoop

City Hall gave a £1.6mn grant to a university after it employed the mayor’s wife The record subsidy was supposed to create hundreds of green jobs across East London. But 18 months later, has it had any impact?

EXCL: The University of East London was given a £1.6mn grant by City Hall, a record high for any university, right after it hired the mayor's wife.

It promised the scheme would produce hundreds of green jobs. The number created so far? Just 14.

@andrewkersley.bsky.social's latest investigation

City Hall gave a £1.6mn grant to a university after it employed the mayor’s wife The record subsidy was supposed to create hundreds of green jobs across East London. But 18 months later, has it had any impact?

Scoop from The Londoner here www.the-londoner.co.uk/city-hall-ue...

Exciting to see that @andrewkersley.bsky.social's story on the plan to free the 15 penguins stuck in the basement of the London Aquarium has become @londonminute.bsky.social's most clicked link ever!

15 penguins are trapped in a Southbank basement. This is the plan to free them An activist, a journalist and an MP walk into the London Aquarium. A colony of Gentoo penguins walk out

Thanks to @andrewkersley.bsky.social for reaching out and covering this campaign. If we’re saying that that is an acceptable way to treat animals, I think it reflects badly on us as a country.

www.the-londoner.co.uk/free-london-...

Thanks Steve!

The great chicken shop war Inside Morley's secret court campaign to crush its competitors and build a city-wide monopoly

Two months ago, punters with a hankering for spicy wings were confronted by a peculiar sign at a Metro’s chicken shop in Ladywell.

@andrewkersley.bsky.social and @milesellingham.bsky.social decided to find out more.

They uncovered a clandestine chicken war that's changing the face of the capital.

Are the super rich really leaving London? A controversial advisory firm for the ultra-wealthy convinced national newspapers that we're facing an exodus of millionaires. Was it true?

5️⃣ @londonermag.bsky.social: Great story from @hkatewilliams.bsky.social and @andrewkersley.bsky.social about 'research' from sources with obvious vested interests.

Are the super rich really leaving London? A controversial advisory firm for the ultra-wealthy convinced national newspapers that we're facing an exodus of millionaires. Was it true?

The news is full of headlines about millionaires fleeing London.

But most of those stories are based on dodgy data created by a controversial wealth advisory and a one-man research firm that studies exotic birds.

My investigation for @londonermag.bsky.social

How a charity founded to solve the housing crisis became one of London’s worst landlords What went wrong at Notting Hill Genesis?

Notting Hill Genesis was founded to solve the housing crisis.

Now it's one of London's biggest, and worst, landlords, with homes filled with mould, rats and sewage and blocks that use 'poor doors'.

What happened?

www.the-londoner.co.uk/notting-hill...

How a charity founded to solve the housing crisis became one of London’s worst landlords What went wrong at Notting Hill Genesis?

A brilliant and powerful article by @andrewkersley.bsky.social & @londonermag.bsky.social exploring the history of Notting Hill Genesis and its metamorphosis from fighting slum landlordism into a slum landlord itself.

www.the-londoner.co.uk/notting-hill...

Revealed: Yorkshire Tory council hopeful once shared stage with Enoch Powell Murphy was kicked out of the Conservative party in 1989 after handing out anti-immigration leaflets warning of a ‘civil war’ in Bradford

Next week, he is standing to be a Tory councillor in the newly created Harrogate Town Council.

Full story (and archive digging) by @lucascumiskey.bsky.social 👇 4/4

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The death of County Kilburn This corner of northwest London was once known as the 33rd county of Ireland. Did its disappearance take the soul of Irish London with it?

Kilburn was once the hub of London's Irish community. Now it's nowhere to be seen. What happened?

I wrote about my home of the last four years and London's obsession with commercialised Irishness for @londonermag.bsky.social

www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-death-of...

Really loved the little details of this @milesellingham.bsky.social piece.

Especially the fact that a model who has been in cover shoots for Gucci and Dior is one of the leading volunteers in the Natural History Museum's basement beetle rooms.

Beetlemania: the crack team responding to London’s insect invasion In the depths of a London institution you’ll find 27,000 boxes, nine million beetles and a race against time

For @londonermag.bsky.social I visited a room in the @nhm.org that contains 300 years, nine million beetles and a few dedicated bug experts at the cusp of a changing world. Have a read www.the-londoner.co.uk/beetlemania-...

Should London start taxing tourists? It could raise tens of millions of pounds a year. But no-one can agree on how to do it.

Millions of visitors descend on London every year.

As councils face bankruptcy and a quarter of some area's homes are turned into Airbnbs, the capital is considering something new: a tax on tourists.

@andrewkersley.bsky.social found out what's going on:

www.the-londoner.co.uk/should-londo...

“The health and safety risks of wearing the costume were so severe that actors could spend a maximum of half an hour playing the ogre before they had to be pulled out of the suit for their own safety.”

Absolutely wonderful stuff from @andrewkersley.bsky.social and @londonermag.bsky.social 👏

Cocaine, kids and Shrek-themed OnlyFans: life inside London’s immersive tourist attractions One former Shrek’s Adventure employee tells all

Somebody once told me that every journalist has a white whale. That one story they just can’t get out of their head, that drills its way deep into their brain.

Mine is big, green and has more layers than an onion: Shrek’s Adventure.

Do you ever wonder what it's like to work at Shrek’s Adventure?

Well I spoke to ex-staff.

They told me about actors running Shrek-themed OnlyFans accounts and ogre costumes too dangerous to wear for over 30 mins.

My magnum opus for @londonermag.bsky.social

www.the-londoner.co.uk/life-inside-...