Why are you never served by a Londoner in a London branch of Pret A Manger? I asked this in the Telegraph recently, and yesterday’s Evening Standard had a great piece tracking down four who applied, and were rejected without an interview. Some suspect there is a bias in favour of immigrants: if your name doesn’t sound exotic, game over. I doubt that a company like Pret, whose most valu...

The owner of the Independent and Evening Standard newspapers says Parliament should look at introducing privacy laws.

The Evening Standard reports: Banks and law firms in London today backed Nick Clegg’s campaign to open up recruitment to all social backgrounds. The Deputy Prime Minister announced that Barclays, HSBC, Credit Suisse, RBS and a string of other City institutions have signed up to his “business compact” on internships, work experience and recruitment… “This

From an interview the Liberal Democrat Foreign Office minister Jeremy Browne gave the Evening Standard this week: I think there is a danger that we are defined by a relatively small set of issues that are relevant and significant but do not give a rounded picture of what the Liberal Democrats are in government in

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition, writing in yesterday’s Evening Standard, said: This is the most important European summit for a generation and its outcome is looking increasingly worrying for the UK. We have warned consistently that an isolated David Cameron has been on the sidelines of Europe for months, out of touch abroad in the same way as he is o...

The London Evening Standard had a story back in 2007 which I’ve only just seen about a cleaner who pays 22% tax on her part time wages while the people who own the company she works for only pay 10%.  It’s old news but it’s pertinent in today’s climate of fierce jealousy of anyone rich

The Evening Standard has the scoop: 'Companies House filings show James Murdoch has stepped down from the boards of both News Group Newspapers Limited, publisher of The Sun, and Times Newspapers Limited, which operates The Times and Sunday Times.' Of course, James Murdoch remains executive chairman of News International, of which both those companies are subsidiaries. His next test will ...

This evening I dined with a friend, and on my way there took this snap of an Evening Standard headline. A couple of years ago I thought that the Evening Standard itself - never mind these billboards - would soon be extinct. But although diminished in number, these headlines are still a familiar part of the London scene, now as then usually telling of catastrophe of one kind or another, public or p...

I think you can guess who this quote is about… but here is what Andrew Hilton wrote in the Evening Standard this week: [Steve Webb] is the best pensions minister we have had in a generation. Hat-tip: Vote Clegg, Get Clegg

Earlier this week, Liberal Democrat MP for Yeovil and former education spokesman, David Laws, had a piece in the London Evening Standard defending the government’s record on education policy to date, but also urging a more ambitious programme over the coming years. Here’s what David has to say on what Michael Gove and his Lib