Andrew Kersley
@andrewkersley
Journalist @_TheLondoner | prev. freelance at Observer, Sunday Times, Mirror etc | Certain to get the boulder up the hill eventually | [email protected]
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17-12-2018 16:52:08
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I chronicled the saga of Fallout London for The Londoner It's the inside story of how a group of volunteers with no funding and no training outdid some of the world's biggest game studios, with a little help from former Commons speaker John Bercow. the-londoner.co.uk/inside-story-fโฆ
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. Andrew Kersley found out what's going on: the-londoner.co.uk/should-london-โฆ
๐จ There are now 10,000 readers paying for Mill Media journalism! Big milestone for our team, who are inspiring a renaissance in high quality local journalism that would have been scarcely believable when we started out. Thanks to everyone who has backed us.
So so proud of my colleagues Abi Whistance and Jack Dulhanty who have both been longlisted for the Private Eye Magazine Paul Foot Award!!! Two of the best investigative reporters in the country right now.
Worth a read. #knowyourkilburn Thanks The Londoner the-londoner.co.uk/the-death-of-cโฆ
โThereโs no evidence we were real,โ Glynn tells me. โWe built the roads, we built the tunnels, but we built no pyramids to let the people know we were here.โ Good piece by Andrew Kersley | The death of County Kilburn the-londoner.co.uk/the-death-of-cโฆ
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 The Londoner the-londoner.co.uk/the-death-of-cโฆ
A brilliant, powerful article by Andrew Kersley & The Londoner (with comment from SHAC) exploring the history of Notting Hill Genesis and how it evolved from organisations launched to fight slum landlordism into a slum landlord itself. the-londoner.co.uk/notting-hill-gโฆ We've long said
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 The Londoner the-londoner.co.uk/are-the-super-โฆ
Two months ago, punters with a hankering for spicy wings were confronted by a peculiar sign at a Metroโs chicken shop in Ladywell. @andrewkersley and Miles Ellingham decided to find out more. They uncovered a clandestine chicken war that's changing the face of the capital.
Inside Morleyโs secret campaign to crush its competitors and build a city-wide monopoly By Miles Ellingham and Andrew Kersley for The Londoner the-londoner.co.uk/the-great-chicโฆ
"15 penguins are trapped in a Southbank basement. This is the plan to free them" Thank you to Andrew Kersley from The Londoner for covering our campaign to Free the 15 from their "dungeon" enclosure without fresh air or daylight ๐ง Link to full article below
If weโre saying that that is an acceptable way to treat animals, I think it reflects badly on us as a country. Thanks to Andrew Kersley for reaching out and covering this campaign. the-londoner.co.uk/free-london-aqโฆ
Andrew Kersley's The Londoner story on the plan to free the 15 penguins stuck in the basement of the London Aquarium not just got a mention in The London Minute, but was the newsletter's most clicked link ever!
