London

‘We can all see you’: Gillian Anderson addresses ‘distracting’ fans in front row

Anderson was filmed outside Soho Place theatre where she’s performing in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Support for Gaza and Garvaghy Road residents in ‘anti-fascism’ march through east London

Thousands attended demonstration to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street

Prolific burglar jailed for killing elderly Irish man who was protecting wife

John Burke (91) suffered bleeding on the brain and broken nose in London attack

A Bigger Life by Louise O’Neill: A willingness and openness to surprise at its best

Commitment to being out in the world with other people may reveal one of the book’s most vital messages

‘My youngest child will probably be bearded before the national children’s hospital opens’

A lot has happened - and a lot hasn’t happened - since Michelle Gallen and her husband decided to move from London to Dublin a decade ago

John Schwatschke: Irish artist who lived in world of Rolls-Royces and Hollywood hell-raisers

Irishman who lived in world of Rolls-Royces and Hollywood hell-raisers credited cut of his suits by Johnson’s tailors of Tullow with easing his passage into wealthy society

Robotaxis are coming for important jobs and immigrants will bear the brunt

Taxi driving offers benefits that are not always obvious when you sit in the back seat

Taoiseach to become first foreign leader to visit UK prime minister Burnham at No 10 North

Irish-UK relations and post-Brexit reset to be on agenda for first meeting in Manchester

William Costelloe brings his father Paul Costelloe’s Diana-era style to London Fashion Week

The Irish designer’s second collection drew on the Eighties, with shoulder pads, pussy bows and silk headscarves returning to the runway

Suspected London ‘Putney Pusher’ found dead, media reports say

Nicholas Brandram (44) had been arrested in June on suspicion of grievous bodily harm

Nigel Farage’s Reform is awash with crypto cash. The spending spree has just begun

Following the money in British politics leads to increasingly fractious places

Kyla Cobbler: ‘With coercive control, I didn’t understand what was happening’

The Cork-born comedian on abuse, ambition, motherhood and right-wing undercurrents in Ireland

It was billed as effortless London luxury. Then tenants found out the rules

Shard Place’s policies, including those on guests and delivery riders, have frustrated many renters

Dara Ó Briain: ‘I don’t think anyone put an argument in favour of Brexit on Mock the Week’

Irish comedian reflects on Mock the Week’s past iterations ahead of revival and the material inspiring his next tour, Re:Creation

Ferrari’s new boutique is a brand extension for its own sake

The Italian firm’s pivot to luxury apparel is impressive in scale and meticulous in application. It’s extravagant, ambitious and wholly unnecessary

Day-tripping: how to spend 15 hours sightseeing in London

From Anthony Bourdain’s favourite coffee haunt to Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and St Paul’s Cathedral, the city offers a world in a day

Reviews in brief: Fledgling and Exhibition

Josh Holton delivers an impressive autofictional debut; Alex Hyde creates a portrait of two very different artists

Driverless robotaxis try their luck on London’s narrow streets

The city’s medieval layout is a maze filled with cars, buses, bikers and jaywalking pedestrians. How will autonomous vehicles cope?

This has been a childhood-defining summer, one that dried out the earth under your feet

Here in London, there has been the sort of prolonged, angry heat that delights and punishes in equal measure

A long road to Ireland: ‘The Irish are very secretive. They don’t tell you stuff’

Colleen Murrell says Australians franker than Irish people and leave everything out in the open

Sr Margaret Coyne obituary: Nun whose work saved sight of thousands threatened with blindness

A key legacy of Sr Margaret’s time in Tigray was the development of new techniques in eye care, high-quality surgery at low cost, and the training of hundreds of Ethiopians in her work

Deirdre McSharry obituary: Irish-raised UK Cosmopolitan editor who discovered Twiggy

McSharry grew up in Ireland, began her career in Dublin, and went on to launch Country Living

There’s more than one way for me to answer ‘Where are you from?’

There are now few parts of Ireland that do not contain first- or second-generation migrants

Parakeets have Londoners in a flap and hunters loading their rifles

Red-necked parakeets, originally from Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, are now established in England’s southeast

‘London is rocket fuel for a career’

Wild Geese: Ryan McKiernan is managing director of a social enterprise in the UK capital that tackles homelessness through hospitality

Traitors Ireland host Siobhán McSweeney: ‘I’m not getting paid enough for it. That’s RTÉ’s fault’

Ahead of the second series, presenter Siobhán McSweeney talks frankly about her pay not always reflecting a show’s success, the reward of theatre work and the Derry Girls effect

Jason Arday: Was the British media to blame for his death?

His supporters blame the media but others say public scrutiny of the tragic academic was justified

Sky City by Jacqueline Crooks: The perfect second novel

As in Crooks’s debut, Fire Rush, her expression of music here is spellbinding. There is a hypnotic lyricism to her prose that vibrates on its own frequency

A Great British pub crawl (for journalistic purposes)

UK government is worried about pub closures but we have done our best to keep them in business

Prof Jason Arday had been victim of ‘public execution’, vigil hears

Thousands gather to remember former Cambridge academic and criticise ‘racist witch hunt’ preceding his death

If CMAT’s at it, it must be cool: The ever-growing appetite for food-themed fashion

Is a desire for authenticity behind our growing love of food-themed clothes and bags? Or do we just want to be ‘different’?

Where is the next ‘best city in the world’? (And sorry, it’s not in Ireland)

Which will be the next city to vie for number one status in international surveys?

⁠How to Train Your Dragon author: ‘I have always liked the idea of an animal you could talk to’

Author and illustrator Cressida Cowell on the latest of her ‘fantasy’ books that pretend to be ‘history’ books

Elton John collaborator Jack Coulter: ‘I was a young child when I first heard colours’

Paul McCartney, Anne Hathaway and Billie Eilish among owners of works by Irish artist who ‘paints music’

Global stocks retreat from record highs amid geopolitical and economic uncertainty

London’s blue-chip FTSE 100 index fell to a two-week low following poor results from mining companies

The joy of mildly scolding someone’s incorrect use of the overhead bin

Emer Of The Past makes decisions that fill Emer Of The Present with anxiety, but having a packed schedule before this UK wedding was delightful

London’s deep Irishness reveals itself in the most unexpected places

I realised the Bangladeshi area where I live had been built by a generation of Irish labourers

UK terror police investigating Ann Widdecombe’s death reopen old investigation

Reform UK spokeswoman and former Tory minister died after she was hit over head with hammer 21 times in July

Have You Never Heard of Bill Fuller? review: An Irish showman with ties to Johnny Cash, a famed Dublin venue, the Mafia and gold digging

Charismatic talking heads help tell the story of an epic life in David Burke’s film

Star scholar Jason Arday resigns from Cambridge amid questions about his life and career

Arday quits as accusations of plagiarism and disputed scholarship and biographical claims mount

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