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The backlash against the Tate for being too "woke", the £450,000 dinosaur skeleton and a new exhibition on David Bowie curated by The Last Dinner Party. Catch up on this week's culture edition:.

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:.

RT @joshi: “Marshall is so desperate to be invited to the dinner parties that he paid twice what it [The Spectator] was worth” 👀. The Murdo….

Six years ago the government offered £37m to a company promising to find homes for London's homeless. But after years of missed targets, whistleblower complaints and staff allegedly playing Xbox at work, this year it closed. Where did it all go wrong?.

“Beavers will be here in time,” McCormack says. Am I just imagining the maniacal glint in his eye? “They’re going to colonise London in time."

🗞️Weekend read out now! . Wild beavers are marching on London from Kent. After protracted war between beavers and humans in Scotland - resulting in culling drives - a project in Ealing is trying to get ahead of bad PR by showing there's no need for panic. Will it succeed?

RT @AndrewKersley: EXCL: I got access to secret plans to ban cars from a chunk of Central London stretching from Elephant and Castle to Reg….

Read the full story here:.

Did you know that some parts of London are as much as seven degrees hotter than others?. We mapped all of London's hottest areas, and met the council staff frantically trying to cool the capital down.

Our Monday Briefing is out now, featuring:. 🍗 The lost £200m and the uncertain future of Smithfield .🌊 Brawls in London's mudlarking community .🎭 Lifesize animal puppets invade Soho.

Lobbying, million pound council pay-offs and a cycling wild west. This is the story of how Lime beat out TfL's Santander Cycles to become London's new cycle hire overlord. Our latest piece by @AndrewKersley.

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

RT @_TheLondoner: If you don’t live in south-east London or know anyone who graduated from Goldsmiths in the last 10 years, you may not hav….

RT @theglasgowbell: We are having our very first in-person event!. Join us on 10th July for a celebration of The Bell’s first nine months;….

.@MayorofLondon has announced that Oxford Street will be pedestrianised as soon as possible, claiming victory in a fierce three-way battle between City Hall, the local council and residents. @hkatewilliams reported on the fight recently.

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“Set is full of lots of young, trendy, creative people [wearing] charity shop clothes and Tabis – very hot girls, very bedraggled boys,” says a graphic designer who @MoyaCrockett met in the beer garden, “they’re not quite champagne socialists… but they are a little bit.”

If you don’t live in south-east London or know anyone who graduated from Goldsmiths in the last 10 years, you may not have heard of Set Social. But for many young creatives — the kind of people who frequent Venue MOT and have opinions on ethical non-monogamy — it's a big deal.

EXCL: The University of East London was given a record £1.6mn grant by City Hall right after it hired the mayor's wife. It promised to produce hundreds of green jobs in East London. The number created so far? Just 14. @AndrewKersley's new investigation.

Check out the full investigation by @AndrewKersley here: .