City of London

Most of them have pledged to triple the amount of protected bike lanes in the city. You can trace the London cycling boom to several factors, including the introduction of congestion charging under Johnson's predecessor, Ken Livingstone, in 2003. But ...

London is a city at war with its poor, governed by a political class apparently bent on demolishing enough social housing that oligarchs, bankers and property developers might be left alone to carve it up for their own savage, greed-crazed reasons.

But then Tony Norfield is not your ordinary denizen of the City of London. He spent 20 years staring at Bloomberg terminals on bank dealing desks, rising to become head of foreign exchange strategy at Dutch lender ABN Amro before the financial crisis.

London is a city at war with its poor, governed by a political class apparently bent on demolishing enough social housing that oligarchs, bankers and property developers might be left alone to carve it up for their own savage, greed-crazed reasons.

They are two very different London success stories, and one is about to become mayor of Europe's largest city. The contrast between Labour's Sadiq Khan and Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith is resonant in a city where soaring property prices are ...

LONDON — One is a bus driver's son who grew up in social housing, the other a billionaire's son raised in a mansion. They are two very different London success stories, and one is about to become the city's next mayor. The contrast between Sadiq Khan ...