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4th April 2025
Boost for London's nightlife as Khan goes to war with local councils that block pubs and clubs opening late

Sadiq Khan will get new powers from the government to overrule local councils in London who block pubs and clubs from opening late. Click here to read more...

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4th April 2025
Khan: New powers to keep nightlife open later will make difference ‘from today’

The decision follows concern that London councils have been restricting the capital’s nightlife. Click here to read more...

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3rd April 2025
Nick Grimshaw's London: drinks at Three Sheets, dinner at Primeur and Soho record-hunting

From his favourite cocktail spots to what he’d do if he was Mayor for the day, the broadcaster shares his guide to the capital. Click here to read more...

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26th March 2025
Westminster late-night entertainment zones attempt to revive struggling London nightlife

Residents and business owners are split over what impact of Westminster City Council’s new strategy to revive London nightlife will have. Click here to read more...

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24th March 2025
UK hospitality: nearly half don’t expect to survive 2025

A survey has found that 44% of hospitality business owners in the UK believe they could cease trading this year. Click here to read more...

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19th March 2025
The suffocation of Soho: how London's creative rogue is being sanitised

Soho is a hotbed of creativity, fun and irreverence. The notion of “quiet nights” goes against its very soul, says Josh Barrie Click here to read more...

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9th January 2025
Sadiq Khan says Oxford Street pedestrianisation scheme will be privately funded

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15th November 2024
Proposal for Soho to be pedestrianised alongside Oxford Street branded 'totally outrageous'.

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14th November 2024
Are you in bed by midnight? Half of Londoners end nights out early because there’s nowhere to go, say stats.

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15th August 2024
Can 24-hour drinking zones transform a city?

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15th August 2024
Scrapping al-fresco dining is a luxury cities can’t afford

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15th August 2024
'What is wrong with this country’

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15th August 2024
End this debate: Let's pedestrianise Soho now

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28th July 2024
Reimagining a pedestrianised London

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8th July 2024
Soho, Bateman street robbery - man suffers head injuries

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21st June 2024
Tories to focus on night-time economy ‘in first 100 days of government’

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21st May 2024
Soho strip club... has licence revoked

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21st May 2024
London has a Soho problem - Eliot Wilson

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5th May 2024
The Wrong Side of History - Ed West
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28th April 2024
Pedestrianise Now

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26th April 2024
The Long, Slow Death of Urban Nightlife

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24th April 2024
Where we live and love...

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22nd April 2024
Opinion on Growth & Prosperity in Soho
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19th April 2024
Soho's' live music scene is dying!

See this video for our decline...

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6th April 2024
‘Not going out.’ Is it last orders for London’s nightlife?

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27th March 2024
Devastating new report reveals 3,000 clubs, bars and pubs have shut in London since the pandemic

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17th March 2024
They kicked us out at 10pm’: why London nightlife has gone Pete Tong

Flexible working, problematic late-night public transport and high costs are blamed for a dramatic slump in the capital’s night-time industries Click here to read more...

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5th March 2024
How nightlife died in Sadiq Khan’s London

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22nd July 2023
‘London’s nightlife is an embarrassment’

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24th March 2022
Building a Safer London

Police and Crime Plan for London 2022-25 Click here to read more...

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