The pace of change is so fast and the magnitude of rents is so significant in west London nowadays that you hardly expect to find an old English tea shop in the heart of Kensington where nothing costs the earth. That's why it was so pleasant when your author recently stumbled across the Muffin Man at 12 Wrights Lane, W8, and found inside a tea room...

Your author faced various quandaries at Belgian installationist Carsten Höller's latest exhibition, Decision at the Hayward Gallery, and at least three of them were about whether it was worth doing all that queueing for whatever art was at the end. Such is Sunday afternoon on the South Bank, but for those with the time and inclination to go on a weekday...

This blog has existed since October 2008, and has been written almost-daily since the 2 January 2009. It's given birth to books, it has taken your author to every corner of this beautiful city on a much more regular basis than before to explore the best London has to offer, and it has made him some truly great friends he hopes to have for the rest of...

Each summer, Westminster Abbey hosts a free series of brass band concerts in College Garden, which is accessible for non-Abbey-ticket-holders via the cloisters to the rear of the Abbey. Today's concert kicks off at 12.30pm and features Regent Brass, a traditional brass band from Wembley in North West London.The concert is part of a series of Wednesday...

Originally the King's Bench Prison, and later the Queen's Prison and the Southwark Convict Prison, a prison stood on the site of what is now the Scovell Estate in Borough from 1758 until 1880, replacing a medieval prison which had taken its name from the King's Bench court of law in which cases of defamation and  bankruptcy were heard, amongst others.In...

It's Bastille Day on Tuesday, and to celebrate Borough Market is hosting a special French event, with food and drink,  traditional waiter’s races, bi-lingual storytelling, face painting, and petanque playing.Then this evening from 6pm until 9pm, the Green Market host more celebrations, with music, eating, drinking, dancing and singing.For more, see http://boroughmarket.org.uk/bastille-day-celebrations-sunday-12th-july-2015^Picture...