Guest post by Guy Aitchison of Our Kingdom I received an email yesterday from the Evening Standard Letters page asking me to comment on Sir Paul Stephenson’s response to the fallout from the G20 protests and the article in the Guardian by former Met commander David Gilbertson blaming a systemic crisis of leadership in the force for police violence. I

I received an email yesterday from the Evening Standard Letters page asking me to comment on Paul Stephenson's response to the fallout from the G20 protests and the article in the Guardian by former Met commander David Gilbertson blaming a systemic crisis of leadership in the force for police violence. I took the opportunity to point out the remarkable shift in editorial po...

The Evening Standard will today launch an ad campaign apologising to Londoners for being such a bunch of vindictive, out of touch, snotty-nosed, misery-bags. The move follows research commissioned by the paper's new editor which shows that Londoners would overwhelmingly prefer to burn in hell than ever read their grotty rag again. According to Standard and Guardian columnist Roy Greenslade: "The m...

The Evening Standard editor Victoria Wadley is set to go if the Lebedev deal goes ahead, with all eyes now on the Tatler editor Geordie Greig to take her place. According to the Media Guardian: "Lebedev intends to make the Standard fresher and younger, and possibly more progressive, and move the paper away from the direct influence of Paul Dacre, the powerful and opinionated editor-in-chief of Ass...

Mehdi Hasan has a provocative article in the Guardian So what, Nick Clegg, made you forget liberty? It is standard Guardian fare these days: you can’t trust the Lib Dems. The “delay” in completing the abolition child detention in deportation cases is the focus of his attack. To be fair, he acknowledges that Labour hardly

So, according to Sky News… Police said they were pelted with missiles believed to include bottles as they tried to save [Ian Tomlinson's] life. Eye-witnesses speaking to the Guardian said… There were a lot of people around him trying to help him and asking for medics. “One or maybe two plastic bottles were thrown, but it was by

MPs seek answers to police's abandoned attempt to force the Guardian newspaper to reveal confidential sources on the phone-hacking scandal

This is an actual Evening Standard ad not a fake, via the Why, That’s Delighful blog, which adds: But what I really want to know is whether the new editors of the Evening Standard, fresh from a campaign where they (quite rightly) apologised for being shit, are happy to sell newspapers in this way? Even though

The most striking thing for me about Roy Greenslade's Evening Standard story was the almighty and near unanimous kicking that the paper received in the comments section beneath it. Now the Guardian's website tends to have a majority of 'right-wing' commenters, but for whatever reason, almost none of them had stuck up for the Evening Standard under this piece. Almost nobody that is except for comme...

Police brutality here in Britain? Apparently so, as The Guardian reveals:"Dramatic footage obtained by the Guardian shows that the man who died at last week's G20protests in London was attacked from behind and thrown to the ground by a baton–wielding police officer in riot gear."The two-minute video clip is on the linked page (I cannot embed it here), as is the full story, which is worth