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Parliament could be heading for very dark place, warns MP amid fears over safety
THE chaotic vote on a Gaza ceasefire shows Parliament is heading to “a very dark place”, a London MP warned today.
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February 22, 2024
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We have no confidence: Scores of MPs demand Speaker goes in vote farce
Fury grows after he allows Starmer off the hook with Labour amendment
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February 22, 2024
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Top chef flies Down Under on the off chance that Taylor fancies bite to eat at her restaurant
THE chef who catered at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding has reportedly flown to Australia — just in case Taylor Swift decides to eat at her restaurant in Sydney.
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February 22, 2024
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We must win: Zelensky's rallying cry as Ukraine conflict enters its third year
UKRAINE’S president Volodymyr Zelensky declared “we must win” as the country’s defiant stand against Vladimir Putin’s invading army was set to enter a third year.
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February 22, 2024
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GABRIEL: WE'VE FOUND FORM AT THE RIGHT TIME
DEFENDER SAYS ARSENAL ARE IN A CRESCENDO’ AS THEY TARGET EUROPEAN AND PREMIER LEAGUE GLORY
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February 21, 2024
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'We're prepared for all they can throw at us'
Earl insists that England will cope with a hostile Murrayfield
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February 21, 2024
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£24bn profits at HSBC likely to revive windfall tax debate
HSBC posted record profits of more than $30 billion (£24 billion) for the last year, figures that are bound to respark the debate about bank profiteering and increase calls for a windfall tax on the biggest lenders.
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February 21, 2024
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Nowhere is better than London Fashion Week for genuinely exciting designers
I’M not being funny but… how amazing has it been celebrating 40 years of London Fashion Week? It was so refreshing for London not to have a paid front row at every f***ing show. This fashion week has really proven you don’t need big celebrities to show off in order to sell your clothing.
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February 21, 2024
Evening Standard
Pens sharpened in the Cliveden set as splits form over Gaza
WARS have many tragic casualties, among them friendships. Since the start of the Gaza conflict last year, a schism has been opening up at the top of the British literary world between those who support Israel's war aims and those wanting an immediate ceasefire.
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February 21, 2024
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'There are more statues of animals than women in London'
Justine Simons is the capital’s powerhouse deputy mayor for culture and the person adding sparkle to Sadiq, says Ross Lydall
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February 21, 2024
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£15m to help end food waste in Standard victory
THE Evening Standard today welcomed Rishi Sunak’s announcement that the Government is allocating £15 million to redirect farm surplus food to people suffering food insecurity.
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February 21, 2024
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Fine details will make you a brunch believer
I HAVE always been at precisely the wrong life stage to truly understand brunch. Around about the time that early-2010s restaurateurs were turning smashed avocado, sharing pans of shakshuka and “bottomless” day drinking into an unstoppable formula, I was a 29-year-old newish dad, slowly awakening to the fact that early parenthood wasn’t compatible with languorous mid-afternoon meals or the speed-necking of seven mimosas within a rigorously observed 90-minute window.
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February 21, 2024
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Matt Smith to the rescue ina watery tale where subtlety quickly drains away
KUDOS to Matt Smith: it’s bold of him to choose this unstarry, uneven production of Ibsen’s social critique for his latest return stage.
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February 21, 2024
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I'll boost crime fight by cutting Khan's mayoral staff, vows Hall
TORY mayoral candidate Susan Hall today called for the reinstatement of borough police commanders as she pledged to make London’s streets safer.
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February 21, 2024
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Fired Post Office chief hits back at Kemi with memo’
BUSINESS Secretary Kemi Badenoch faced a growing row today with the former Post Office chairman over a disputed request to delay compensation for sub-postmaster victims of the Horizon IT scandal.
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February 21, 2024
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London Labour MPs set to defy Starmer and push for Gaza ceasefire in vote
SEVERAL London Labour MPs vowed to back a Commons call for a Gaza ceasefire today as Sir Keir Starmer was locked in a tussle over parliamentary procedure in a bid to quell a revolt.
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February 21, 2024
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Tea and fizz with the style set at Downing Street fashion parade
WELCOME to Downing street to celebrate London Fashion Week’s finale and 40th anniversary tea — and champagne, obviously, this is fashion after all. The style set nibbled on miniature pastel de nata and smoked salmon sarnies.
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February 21, 2024
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BT sells off landmark tower in £275m deal for new London mega hotel
THE BT Tower, one of London’s most instantly recognisable landmarks, is to be converted into a luxury hotel after being sold for £275 million.
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February 21, 2024
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RFU FORCED TO ROW BACK ON TWICKENHAM REVAMP
£663m RENOVATION OR WEMBLEY GROUNDSHARE 'NOT FEASIBLE', SO IMPROVEMENTS ARE WAY FORWARD
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February 20, 2024
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Glasner era starts well as Palace show they are up for the fight
New boss watches on as his side battles for well-earned point at fellow strugglers
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February 20, 2024
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Building work starts on new 50-storey tower at Bankside
CONSTRUCTION has started on what will be the tallest new residential skyscraper under development in prime central London, in a big vote of confidence in the capital’s luxury homes market.
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February 20, 2024
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Britain needs more high-growth hero firms’
THE UK is failing to generate the fast growth small businesses that could turbocharge the economy’s lacklustre level of productivity, a major new report claims today.
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February 20, 2024
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Barclays surges as City welcomes shake-up plans
BARCLAYS shares surged today as Britain’s second biggest bank unveiled an ambitious shake-up including plans to return £10 billion to shareholders in the next three years.
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February 20, 2024
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It changed everyone who saw it so I'm delighted Live Aid is reborn on stage
LIVE AID, the music event that brought the word together 39 years ago, was surely the greatest demonstration of the power music can have over hearts and minds. Live Aid was not just a concert, it was a movement that spawned a mood of global communality and left an indelible mark on millions of lives, including my own.
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February 20, 2024
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The Fourth Plinth is what public art should be
WELL, you can have a sweet potato, an ice cream van, an equestrian figure draped in green slime or a black cat.
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February 20, 2024
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Twice the fun for movie nerds but it won't bother the box office
JOHN LOGAN'S frustrating new play is a pub quiz film round mounted on stage. It awkwardly splices together Alfred Hitchcock's attempt to control and conquer Tippi Hedren during Marnie (1964) and Vincent Price's fraught relationship with the young, doomed director Michael Reeves on Witchfinder General (1968).
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February 20, 2024
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We need truth, says Assange's wife at start of his final court fight
JULIAN ASSANGE was today mounting his final court battle to avoid extradition to the United States on espionage charges.
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February 20, 2024
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Shock as Strictly's partner to the stars Robin Windsor dies aged 44
STRICTLY Come Dancing star Robin Windsor has died “tragically” at the age of 44.
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February 20, 2024
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Israel scribbled out on certificate
JEWISH FATHER’S ANGER AFTER BABY’S DOCUMENT RETURNED FROM HOME OFFICE TORN AND DEFACED
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February 20, 2024
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Gosling nearly put me off my acceptance speech, says rising star
ACTRESS Mia McKenna-Bruce says Ryan Gosling almost derailed her acceptance speech when she scooped the rising star award at the Baftas, McKenna-Bruce, 26, was named EE Bafta rising star at Sunday's ceremony, ahead of fellow nominees Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor, The Bear's Ayo Edebiri, Talk To Me actress Sophie Wilde and Saltburn actor Jacob Elordi.
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