This is London: Life and Death in the World City

Ben Judah’s This Is London is a vivid portrait of a city transformed by global migration and inequality. Through encounters with migrants, workers, and elites, Judah reveals a fragmented metropolis of hidden lives and parallel worlds. His reporting is energetic and immersive, capturing voices often excluded from official narratives. The book challenges romantic notions of London, exposing the human cost of economic power and precarity. It is urgent, eye-opening, and fiercely contemporary.