Inside this week's London Standard

Hello London. This week our cover star is Goldie, one of the most influential music titans of his generation. If you haven’t listened to Inner City Life, please do — you’ll thank me for it, I promise.

He talks to Dylan Jones about everything from confusing wealth with riches to his pain over his son being sent to prison and how his 1990s heyday was a lot less toxic politically than the age we live in now. Too true.

He also talks about the tragedy of losing our youth clubs, and how that contributed to his son’s downfall. It’s something I think about a lot. In my opinion, London’s biggest problem right now is confused, angry young men. Those clubs were a refuge for lost boys. There are still some excellent youth clubs, but most have closed. How do we bring them back?

Elsewhere, read our special report by David James Smith on the shadowy sharia courts proliferating all over London, and why allowing a parallel legal system to thrive is concerning.

Douglas Murray also writes powerfully on democracies and death cults, we review Melinda French Gates’s fascinating new memoir and Jonathan Prynn reports on the campaign to end the tourist tax throttling retail in the capital.

And as always, online and in print, we have so much more. Let me know what you think @annavanpraagh

The London Standard is available for free pick-up across the city from Thursday to Monday or you can read the digital edition online.