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The London Standard - April 24, 2025

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Utgiver: ESI Media

Kategori: Newspaper

Språk: English

Frekvens: 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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April 24, 2025

GOODBYE JUST STOP OIL... HELLO YOUTH DEMAND

A radical, more militant breed of protest group is threatening to shut down London this summer. So who are they, and what do they want?

8 mins

'I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MUCH ABUSE AND VILIFICATION HAS BEEN PUT MY WAY'

Kemi Badenoch believes she is the antidote to the existential crisis plaguing the Tories. But can she convince her party — and the country — she can be Prime Minister?

10+ mins

‘Your country has a deep and glorious history of rich idiots — so does mine’

Jon Hamm on our obsession with wealth and why Mad Men isn’t coming back

4 mins

Labour's Schools Bill is a backwards step and will hurt the most disadvantaged

When I left the legal profession after working at two leading international law firms, it was with a clear aspiration: to develop an educational model that would offer children from some of the most disadvantaged communities the same opportunities enjoyed by many of my more privileged peers.

3 mins

Shoot-from-the-hip Donald is taking down the world economy single-handedly

This is a true story. As a colleague and I finished interviewing Donald Trump before his first presidential visit to Britain in July 2018, we were accosted by a tall man with a military air and a pen and notebook in hand.

4 mins

'WE HAD A CHOICE: END THE BAND OR SHARE THE SPOTLIGHT'

When Black Country, New Road's singer quit, they could have all called it a day. Instead, they have reinvented themselves as the most exciting indie pioneers since The Last Dinner Party.

5 mins

At the table Imagine the Dev and the Dover hooked up

Prawn cocktail to start is hardly a wanton display of non-conformity, so one of the mysteries of the Devonshire — the Soho behemoth, not the Kentish Town goth hovel — is exactly why it defibrillated the dying British pub.

3 mins

On the sauce Perfectplace to take it breezy

When Bistrotheque opened, YouTube was a year off launching, nobody had heard of Eating With Tod and Dublin coddle was a home-cooked meal, not a £20 dish galloping across Instagram like a horse.

1 min

Sins of the family are shockingly funny in this Ibsen for our times

With season three of The White Lotus, London's two recent Oedipuses, and now this extraordinary show, revelations of incest that make an audience gasp and squirm are having a moment.

2 mins

An elegant skewering of the beautiful and the damned

Death, psychosis, apocalypse — it’s a strong mixture for a novel. In the hands of a writer less capable than Edward St Aubyn, it would probably add up to a fatal dose for a book that you were actually hoping to read and enjoy.

3 mins

Grande dame Knowles chronicles the destiny well

Celebrity memoirs are having a moment. Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson, Prince Harry.

2 mins

The secret ingredient that scientists believe could help us live for longer

DOLPHINS, THE US NAVY AND PECORINO: THE STRANGE TALE OF A LONGEVITY BREAKTHROUGH, BY CLAUDIA COCKERELL

4 mins

Do we really want to live in a world of dumb waiters?

Progress is only a matter of perspective.

3 mins

Your passport to Pimlico Road

Interiors fans will fall in love with one of Europe's most feted design districts.

4 mins

Strawberry Hill House

Today's fascination with vampires and horror stories is nothing new.

3 mins

Meet London's own fresh prince of preppy style

Move over Ralph Lauren — designer Daniel Fletcher is riding the Ivy League wave with his transformation of Chinese label Mithridate

4 mins

REJINA PYO ON WHY HER SOUL IS IN SEOUL

Authentic Korean BBQ, gorgeous views, must-buy cosmetics, incredible desserts, heavenly spas... the fashion designer is never bored in her home city

4 mins

Is Oxford Street finally back in business?

Ikea's opening, the candy stores are going and London's most important shopping district is buzzing again. By Jonathan Prynn

4 mins

'I'm scared, but to race against Kipchoge is really special'

If there was ever a day when Alex Yee had second thoughts about his London Marathon experiment, it came not on some gruelling training run, but with Eddie Nketiah’s clinching goal in last month's FA Cup quarter-final for his beloved Crystal Palace.