Getting a jump on things with parkour
Hopping from rooftops, scaling walls and fences—it’s all part of the sport’s ever-growing popularity
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Leah McLaren
Leah McLaren is Maclean’s National Magazine Award-winning London correspondent. Her second novel, A Better Man, was published by HarperCollins in 2015.
Bye to the books
The United Kingdom’s libraries are on the chopping block, but incensed Britons are fighting back
Spending—a sterling idea
Brits are using credit like never before. Whatever happened to frugality?
A separate peace
My cookies, my phone, my shampoo, my laptop, my life
Samcam comes to Downing
David Cameron’s wife brings style and mystery to the PM’s residence
The prince and his manservant
Saudi royalty meets the British justice system in a bloody case of murder at a five-star London hotel
The weather outside is frightful
Some London politicians have the answer for dealing with a snowfall: give everyone a free shovel
How to solve Britain’s problems? Ale.
Salvation lies in the country’s pubs, and an age-old drinking culture