The London Standard - May 15, 2025
The London Standard Newspaper Description:
Publisher: ESI Media
Category: Newspaper
Language: English
Frequency: Weekly
The London Standard is a new weekly paper that brings together the newspaper qualities that audiences have read for almost two hundred years. Sharp opinion, analysis, interviews and deeply researched features will combine with ES Magazine’s core values of design, visual impact, luxury lifestyle content and relevance. With an insider’s feel it will offer an original, energetic take on everything London has to offer - the very best comment, consumer guides, business, fashion, food, travel, reviews, politics and the hottest places in London to enjoy the weekend..
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May 15, 2025
One to Watch
MOBLAND'S EMILY BARBER ON BEING TOO RUN OFF HER FEET TO BE FAZED BY A-LIST CO-STARS LIKE HELEN MIRREN
2 mins
'EVERY DECADE I'VE BEEN ALIVE THE WORLD HAS GOT BETTER'
Britain's most famous entrepreneur Richard Branson is full of good vibes — including wanting to give away his billions, praising London to the skies and solving the world's woes
10 mins
LONDON'S SUGAR BABIES: THE SOUR TRUTH
An easy way to make money — or plain sordid? Claudia Cockerell meets the young professionals dating rich older men in exchange for cash, just to pay the rent
10+ mins
Dear Mayor, don't reverse the good you have done for the air Londoners breathe
Ending the cleaner vehicle discount is a step backwards for everyone in the capital
4 mins
Date night for Harry and Meghan at Beyoncé gig
“My goodness, the stream of snaps was so much more than just another date night,” writes Liz Jones.
1 min
Right-wing ideology is thriving in the swamps of self-help and gym-bro culture
It is 1964 and my father is up a ladder in a second-hand bookshop on Charing Cross Road. This is how we'd spend our Saturdays, hunting for old stuff: philosophy, psychology, fiction and politics. My father, an Indian, was also looking for something in Buddhist and Taoist texts that would give him, as he put it, “direction in life”, which his parents had failed to engender in him.
3 mins
How to save US democracy? Simple: copy the Catholic church
The death of a pope focuses attention on the historic procedure by which the Roman church elects its leader. A thought occurs. This could be the ideal way to choose the leader of any country.
3 mins
At the Baftas Marisa Abela bosses the red carpet, while David Tennant cosies upwith Rivals co-star Alex Hassell
Every year, Vogue and Netflix throw rival after parties for the Baftas. The fashion set go to one, film people to the other.
1 min
National treasure Grayson Perry checks out the new National and Tom Cruise is on a mission all over town
To celebrate its 200th birthday, the National Gallery did what any sensible person would do, and had an £85m facelift.
1 min
THE RISE AND RESILIENCE (AND SECRET PAIN) OF LONDON GRAMMAR
The band are now one of the biggest music acts in the world, but ahead of next month's Lido festival, frontwoman Hannah Reid reveals the private ordeal that nearly made her quit.
5 mins
Ready-made chain feels like a cynical cash grab
I didn't see this one coming.
3 mins
Did someone on this mission not get the party time memo?
There's a celebration going on here, but exactly what kind of a party is it?
2 mins
Beverley Knightand her co-star belt their souls out over a lifeless script
The great soul singer and actress Beverley Knight often transcends the material she's given.
1 min
A breathtaking dive into troubled waters
It's a heartbreaking irony-one not lost on Sir David Attenborough - that in his long lifetime scientists' understanding of the natural world has increased dramatically while nature has suffered devastating losses over the same period.
3 mins
What's in a name? Quite a lot, actually, in this moving debut
What if? And what's in a name? Those are the questions at the heart of Florence Knapp's clever, beautiful and deeply moving debut novel The Names, about one family and three possible fates.
2 mins
Oh baby, this stem cell longevity therapy sounds like a futuristic ride
THE LATEST TOOL IN THE ANTI-AGEING BATTLE? THE UMBILICAL CORDS OF NEWBORNS, DISCOVERS INDIA BLOCK
4 mins
Get ready to Whoop—this new wearable might just be the future of health
Whoop is already the must-have wearable and now the brand has added not one but two new models to its collection, which are set to change health tracking forever.
1 min
Why learning the science of eating well should be at the top of your menu
The noise around nutrition can feel deafening in 2025.
2 mins
So what's really going on at Stella McCartney?
A £25m loss, the closure of the Bond Street flagship — all is not well at the designer's trailblazing label. But can she turn things around?
4 mins
Hidden London
SECRET SPOTS YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO DISCOVER
4 mins
Inside London's £80 million penthouse
It's a billionaire’s paradise in the heart of Knightsbridge — but will it sell? By Emma Magnus
5 mins
All hail the spa garden
WHY NOT ADD A SAUNA, AN ICE BATH OR A SHOWER TO YOUR OUTSIDE SANCTUARY, ASKS LUCY PAVIA EVERYONE ELSE IS
3 mins
SIMON REEVE ON THE POWER OF VARANASI
Spectacular, overwhelming, spiritual and home to seriously good street food — why India’s holiest city has stolen the TV presenter and adventurer’s heart
5 mins
The real reasons why Sadiq Khan has failed to fix London's housing crisis
Mired in regulation and hit by rich foreign investors fleeing, house building in the capital has all but ground to a halt. Will Khan's green belt U-turn really help, asks Jonathan Prynn
5 mins
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