Thanks to everyone who has been reading London Centric’s coverage of Asif Aziz and Criterion Capital’s mass evictions. Asif Aziz has now employed lawyers Carter-Ruck to provide a response to our reporting.

Carter-Ruck state that it is wrong to suggest that Aziz’s Criterion Capital ever considered calling off the evictions in the face of political pressure from Sadiq Khan, even though many residents were verbally told on their doorsteps that a U-turn was underway.

The lawyers also say Criterion Capital will be pushing ahead with the evictions, as they are part of a “lawful and commercially acceptable” process. They also say it is wrong to describe a private tenant being issued with a legal eviction notice as being “made homeless”.

Carter-Ruck also state that Asif Aziz has reported me to the police on unspecified grounds after I visited his office and house in a bid to get a response on behalf of his tenants as to whether they were losing their homes.

I’ll have more on that story in due course. But today we’ve got a very different story – looking at the reality behind the “school wars” meme spreading across London schools. Scroll down to read that.

I’ve been experimenting with making some of our stories into videos on Instagram. Some of them have gone unexpectedly viral and reached a global audience, resulting in the curious sight of actor Sarah Jessica Parker liking a video on Asif Aziz’s eviction of tenants at Britannia Point tower.

If you’d like to join the Sex and the City star in learning more about whether Sadiq Khan will succeed in stopping the Section 21 notices issued to Colliers Wood tenants, do follow London Centric on Instagram.

How the London school wars meme spread from TikTok to mass panic – without a single reported police incident

By Jim Waterson, Sophie Wilkinson and Polly Smythe

On Friday a dozen schoolchildren were kept at home for their own safety in just one year group at a school in Merton. In Haringey, teachers increased their usual patrols outside at kicking-out time. In Forest Hill, a boys’ school cancelled its after-school clubs and warned children that if they were spotted at Lewisham Shopping Centre, they’d be expelled. Schools across the capital have been finishing early.

All of these incidents, described to London Centric in