Ben Judah

Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent and the author of "This is London: Life and Death in the World City." In the book, Judah immersed himself in the hidden world of London's immigrants to reveal the city in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers and witch-doctors.

Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent and the author of "This is London: Life and Death in the World City." In the book, Judah immersed himself in the hidden world of London's immigrants to reveal the city in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers and witch-doctors.


Ben Judah spent time undercover working alongside the undocumented laborers of London's new migrant underclass.

Post-Dickens: the new London is a mega-city of migrants

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The new London is an immigrant mega-city where nearly 40 percent were born abroad. This is no longer the city of Dickens. London now is a city of African night cleaners, Filipina maids and Romanian building bosses. A city where immigration has so utterly transformed the fabric that it has changed London’s very soul.