Has the recent purchase of The London Evening Standard given its contributors and editors carte blanche to dump its previous owner The Daily Mail Group in the shit? Emma Duncan (deputy editor of The Economist) writes in today’s London Evening Standard about the BBC and the DEC Gaza appeal. My belief that Mr Thompson was right is

The London Evening Standard saw another circulation rise year on year, by 0.48% in August, but bulks increased as a percentage of total circulation. Headline circulation fell about 14,000 copies compared with July, to 278,889 last month, although the summer holiday period is generally a quiet time for the 50p Standard. Full-price sales in August were 150,625,

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...

Tuesday evening, received a surprise call from a reporter at London's Evening Standard newspaper asking if would be willing to contribute to the readers' views this week. Bit taken back as it was the last thing I expected at such short notice. The old cliche about flattery certainly worked on me - Thought why not at least somebody out there values my opinion. Quick interview on the phone...

Billionaire and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev is poised to buy a majority stake in the London Evening Standard, in the first deal to give control of a British newspaper to a former foreign spy.

First the Evening Standard say sorry... Then they employ a cuddly bear... And then Andrew Gilligan writes a half-decent article. We're through the looking glass here London.Subscribe in a reader

Multi-millionaire Conservative frontbencher Alan Duncan has been forced to make a rapid and humiliating apology after it emerged that he had been secretly filmed complaining about the impact of the expenses scandal. According to the Evening Standard, the Shadow Commons Leader originally claimed earlier today that his remarks had been meant as a joke, but

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The Evening Standard reports: ‘Marmite mayor’ with four different jobs earns £104,000 plus expenses A leading London Tory at the centre of an expenses row is on a six-figure pay package funded by the taxpayer. Brian Coleman will become Mayor of Barnet in May after he was nominated by fellow councillors - taking his annual pay for a

London blogger Tory Troll has this piece about Andrew Gilligan, frequent critic of former London Mayor Ken Livingstone. Gilligan used a rather unusual turn of phrase in his Evening Standard column on Monday, on London’s bendy buses. The same phrase had cropped up earlier in anonymous comments on the same subject in other London political