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The London Standard
It's time to give yourself a leg up
Help, it's Bare Leg Season! But don't panic - follow our guide to get your pins ready for spring
3 min |
April 03, 2025
The London Standard
First Night This is blood- sucking fun but bites off more than it can chew
was going to avoid the obvious spoiler about John Donnelly's daftly entertaining play but it's described elsewhere as a \"vampire comedy\" and the programme is full of references to undead bloodsuckers.
2 min |
April 03, 2025
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Liberation Day for Trump as he 'drops nuclear bomb on the global trading system'
US president unleashes a blitz of tariffs - but the UK gets off relatively lightly
5 min |
April 03, 2025
The London Standard
That's hot! The high street secrets behind The White Lotus resort-wear
If I asked you to picture your best-dressed self, you'd probably be on holiday, wouldn't you? Now imagine you have more money than you know what to do with. Now imagine there are 20 of you. This is what it's like outfitting the cast of The White Lotus, the hit HBO show currently approaching the end of its third and most popular season yet. Set in Hawaii, then Sicily, then Thailand, the backdrops are almost as gorgeous as the stars sitting in front of them.
4 min |
April 03, 2025
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Can Arsenal's Miracle Man conjure a top-class striker?
New sporting director can't let club waste another shot at league title
2 min |
April 03, 2025
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Broadcaster Nick Grimshaw drinks at Three Sheets, dines at Primeur and loves Soho record-hunting
Home is... Hackney. I don't know if it's because it's closer to Manchester on a subconscious level, but I've always lived north of the river.
4 min |
April 03, 2025
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Bay Garnett finds peace and freedom among the beaches and bars of Paxos
The stylist unveils her Greek tonic for city dwellers, complete with night swims, sunset views... and lots of dancing
4 min |
April 03, 2025
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"I know why I'm in the room. I'm the entertainment, I get that. I come in and it's sexy, it's cool and it's fun
“What's the matter with you?” Usher looks at me as though I have just emerged the worse for wear from a fist fight in one of the downtown bars in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
8 min |
April 03, 2025
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OH NO! IS MY DOG (ALL OF A SUDDEN) COMMON?
Yes, that breed du jour which was once the coolest canine on the block could be rather naff now
7 min |
April 03, 2025
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Censorship and sensibility The woke case against free speech
These are bad arguments, butit’s handy to have them all here in one place
4 min |
March 27, 2025
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You won't be lost for words, alas
One or two drinks on the Seed Library menu read like gags from Andy Zaltzman, the sometime comedian and longtime cricket fanatic who has mad hair and whose wordplay is madder still.
1 min |
March 27, 2025
The London Standard
Charlton House and Gardens
Where in London can you find mermaids, meet the gods Venus and Vulcan, participate in a fesitval of debauched madness, be inspired to eat more healthily and enjoy the capital's poshest loo?
3 min |
March 27, 2025
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Shaboozey and Cktrl take charge asi-D magazine makes the coolest of comebacks
In a sign that print culture is making a comeback, i-D magazine returned to newsstands this week after a two-year hiatus.
1 min |
March 27, 2025
The London Standard
Step into spring! Your style guide
Beyond the beautiful boutiques of Mount Street - which, for the record, are always worth a visit an affordable high street revolution has taken place.
3 min |
March 27, 2025
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What you thinkisn't what you thought: in praise of cultural U-turns
It's always heartening, given shortened attention spans, to find that the long essay still exists in book form. And hats off to Notting Hill Editions which still commissions contemporary authors to write them.
2 min |
March 27, 2025
The London Standard
High hopes for a new cannabis-based alternative to opioid painkillers
More than one in three adults in the UK suffers from chronic pain just under 28 million people, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice). But until now, the treatment options have been severely limited by the addictiveness of opioid painkillers.
2 min |
March 27, 2025
The London Standard
Three fantastic areas for first-time buyer bargains
Life has just got that bit harder for first-time buyers trying to step on to London's housing market.
3 min |
March 27, 2025
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Secrets of the fixers for the super-rich
A private word with the Pope? A serenade from Rihanna? This is beyond concierge
5 min |
March 27, 2025
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Are barber shops the latest front for London crime gangs?
Drugs. People trafficking. Terrorism. That £10 haircut might be too good to be true
7 min |
March 27, 2025
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Your idyllic Paphos getaway awaits
Paphos is one of the most popular destinations for Mediterranean holidays, and for good reason.
1 min |
March 27, 2025
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Fromsci-fi horror to screwball romance, Amber Midthunder is making her name atlightningspeed
Few survive the Predator, but Amber Midthunder - who hunted down the sci-fi monster in the excellent prequel Prey - not only escaped the jungle in one piece but also became one of Hollywood's brightest new prospects in the process.
2 min |
March 27, 2025
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Nice to be Nasty: the second coming of a music warrior
Killer album? Acting with Nicole Kidman? Rap star Rico Nasty is back and doing it all her way
6 min |
March 27, 2025
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Crystal Palace at the crossroads
The Eagles are flying high, but uncertainty surrounds their players, their boss and the ownership
5 min |
March 27, 2025
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Live long and prosper? It's a lot simpler than you think, says Dr Chatterjee
Doctor Rangan Chatterjee is on a mission to spread the good and healthy life to the masses.
4 min |
March 27, 2025
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Actor Russell Tovey shops at Stone Island, dines at 45 Jermyn Street and strolls the Thames beaches
Best meal you've had? I always have fantastic food at The Delaunay, it's full of theatre folk.
3 min |
March 27, 2025
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No sex please, we're Gen Z
It's often bandied around that young people aren't having as much sex as their forefathers.
6 min |
March 27, 2025
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Aglowing residency amid the spartan gloom
A bleak mist shrouds the restaurant business.
3 min |
March 27, 2025
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The art of making your walls beautiful
Here's where to buy the best pieces, from cutting-edge new names to vintage finds
4 min |
March 27, 2025
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Should Tuchel try to tame Bellingham's wild side?
The line between genius and recklessness is perilously thin
3 min |
March 27, 2025
The London Standard
This flashback to Sidney Poitier vs Hollywood racism is wickedly funny
Unfolding in real time in a tight and wickedly funny 90 minutes, Ryan Calais Cameron's play dramatises the moral challenge faced by Sidney Poitier at the start of his career in the racist, paranoid Hollywood of 1955. Should he denounce colleagues in the civil rights struggle, including the heroic Paul Robeson, to get a foot on the ladder in an NBC TV movie?
2 min |