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Journalist @_TheLondoner | prev. freelance at Observer, Sunday Times, Mirror etc | Certain to get the boulder up the hill eventually | andrew@the-londoner.co.uk
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The Goldie Saloon saga gets so much weirder

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By Andrew Kersley Verified
| The Londoner Verified
Almost two weeks ago, we published one of the strangest, and most entertaining, sagas we’ve ever produced here at The Londoner. It had all come about after a reader had noticed that the Instagram page for a beloved lesbian bar and “sexy gay living room” in Hackney — called Goldie Saloon — had suddenly been taken over by a luxury dog groomer in Essex called Maison De Floof.
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The inside story of why driverless taxis aren’t coming to London this year

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By Andrew Kersley Verified
| The Londoner Verified
It was hard to miss. Maybe it was the faint thrum of house music playing, or the line of eerily unmoving, silent supermodels in pristine white F1 jumpsuits standing by the front door. On the night of 3 September, a glitzy event was playing out in Lindley Hall, an ornate listed building on a side street near Westminster. Hosted by Uber and British autonomous vehicle start-up Wayve, featuring free drinks, display cars and a live performance from DJ Fat Tony so loud conversation was almost impossible.
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It was east London’s hottest lesbian bar. Then a straight builder from Essex was forced to run it

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By Andrew Kersley Verified
| The Londoner Verified
It started with an email. Tasha Parsons, a Londoner reader, had been scrolling through Instagram when suddenly their feed was inundated with pictures of manicured dogs. The posts, which referred to “little floofs” with “a lot of attitude”, came from a page called Maison De Floof, a luxury dog groomer in Epping. This was curious to Tasha: she had never followed this account, or even heard of it. As it happened, the Instagram account in question had undergone a rebrand.
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