Richard Brown: London’s housing stagnation – those dark doldrums explained – OnLondon

There’s a German phrase, “dunkelflaute”, which interprets as “darkish doldrums” – durations when there isn't any wind or solar to generate electrical energy (making you reliant on coal and Russian gasoline, if you happen to occur to have shut down all of your nuclear energy vegetation). London’s housing market appears...

Richard Derecki: Lasting intrigue of London’s most notorious suburban spies – OnLondon

Between 1954 and 1961, working from an unassuming bungalow at 45 Cranley Drive, Ruislip, Lona and Morris Cohen smuggled out an enormous haul of British nuclear secrets and techniques to their KGB paymasters. Working beneath the aliases Helen and Peter Kroger, the names taken from a New Zealander couple who...