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Is Oxford Street finally back in business?
Ikea's opening, the candy stores are going and London's most important shopping district is buzzing again. By Jonathan Prynn
4 min |
April 24, 2025
The London Standard
Sins of the family are shockingly funny in this Ibsen for our times
With season three of The White Lotus, London's two recent Oedipuses, and now this extraordinary show, revelations of incest that make an audience gasp and squirm are having a moment.
2 min |
April 24, 2025
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Restaurateur Yotam Ottolenghi shops at Cyberdog, flies solo at Master Wei and loves La Fromagerie's comté
Home is... Camden, since 2013.
3 min |
April 24, 2025
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GOODBYE JUST STOP OIL... HELLO YOUTH DEMAND
A radical, more militant breed of protest group is threatening to shut down London this summer. So who are they, and what do they want?
8 min |
April 24, 2025
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At the table Imagine the Dev and the Dover hooked up
Prawn cocktail to start is hardly a wanton display of non-conformity, so one of the mysteries of the Devonshire — the Soho behemoth, not the Kentish Town goth hovel — is exactly why it defibrillated the dying British pub.
3 min |
April 24, 2025
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'WE HAD A CHOICE: END THE BAND OR SHARE THE SPOTLIGHT'
When Black Country, New Road's singer quit, they could have all called it a day. Instead, they have reinvented themselves as the most exciting indie pioneers since The Last Dinner Party.
5 min |
April 24, 2025
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Meet London's own fresh prince of preppy style
Move over Ralph Lauren — designer Daniel Fletcher is riding the Ivy League wave with his transformation of Chinese label Mithridate
4 min |
April 24, 2025
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On the sauce Perfectplace to take it breezy
When Bistrotheque opened, YouTube was a year off launching, nobody had heard of Eating With Tod and Dublin coddle was a home-cooked meal, not a £20 dish galloping across Instagram like a horse.
1 min |
April 24, 2025
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'I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MUCH ABUSE AND VILIFICATION HAS BEEN PUT MY WAY'
Kemi Badenoch believes she is the antidote to the existential crisis plaguing the Tories. But can she convince her party — and the country — she can be Prime Minister?
10+ min |
April 24, 2025
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REJINA PYO ON WHY HER SOUL IS IN SEOUL
Authentic Korean BBQ, gorgeous views, must-buy cosmetics, incredible desserts, heavenly spas... the fashion designer is never bored in her home city
4 min |
April 24, 2025
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'I'm scared, but to race against Kipchoge is really special'
If there was ever a day when Alex Yee had second thoughts about his London Marathon experiment, it came not on some gruelling training run, but with Eddie Nketiah’s clinching goal in last month's FA Cup quarter-final for his beloved Crystal Palace.
5 min |
April 24, 2025
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Labour's Schools Bill is a backwards step and will hurt the most disadvantaged
When I left the legal profession after working at two leading international law firms, it was with a clear aspiration: to develop an educational model that would offer children from some of the most disadvantaged communities the same opportunities enjoyed by many of my more privileged peers.
3 min |
April 24, 2025
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Strawberry Hill House
Today's fascination with vampires and horror stories is nothing new.
3 min |
April 24, 2025
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An elegant skewering of the beautiful and the damned
Death, psychosis, apocalypse — it’s a strong mixture for a novel. In the hands of a writer less capable than Edward St Aubyn, it would probably add up to a fatal dose for a book that you were actually hoping to read and enjoy.
3 min |
April 24, 2025
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‘Your country has a deep and glorious history of rich idiots — so does mine’
Jon Hamm on our obsession with wealth and why Mad Men isn’t coming back
4 min |
April 24, 2025
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Grande dame Knowles chronicles the destiny well
Celebrity memoirs are having a moment. Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson, Prince Harry.
2 min |
April 24, 2025
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Your passport to Pimlico Road
Interiors fans will fall in love with one of Europe's most feted design districts.
4 min |
April 24, 2025
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Shoot-from-the-hip Donald is taking down the world economy single-handedly
This is a true story. As a colleague and I finished interviewing Donald Trump before his first presidential visit to Britain in July 2018, we were accosted by a tall man with a military air and a pen and notebook in hand.
4 min |
April 24, 2025
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Place in Spurs' hall of fame would not protect Ange from the sack
But fortunes of club’s former managers prove that he may be better off elsewhere, by Dan Kilpatrick
3 min |
April 24, 2025
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Do we really want to live in a world of dumb waiters?
Progress is only a matter of perspective.
3 min |
April 24, 2025
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An extraordinary life, but too much self-help
Contrary to the headlines, The Next Day is neither a divorce memoir nor a riposte. Melinda French Gates — who's gone by a double-barrel since leaving her ex-husband, Bill Gates, in 2021 — has decided to write something of a memoir/self-help hybrid.
3 min |
April 17, 2025
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Future nostalgiabut do we really need a new Polaroid?
The Flip's customisable photographs are sharp and high-quality
1 min |
April 17, 2025
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Princess Olympia of Greece shops at Rellik, loves Kiln for a first date and eats chicken Kyiv at The Cow
With my accent, you’d never believe England was my home for 18 years.
3 min |
April 17, 2025
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Spring is in the air — time to switch up your scent
Say goodbye to winter with these holidays in a bottle
3 min |
April 17, 2025
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Britain must ask hard questions of its many death cult supporters
A poll carried out last year found that only one in four British Muslims believe Hamas carried out rapes and murders on October 7, 2023. It is a figure that should have caused significant soul-searching in this country. Why do so many people in our society believe lies?
4 min |
April 17, 2025
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London, the one that got away — how I see the capital after we broke up
Seven years ago, London spat me out. This was not something I had ever imagined possible — until it happened. London was in my blood; people with my surname — and we're all related — have been in London for centuries. I had no intention of leaving the place.
4 min |
April 17, 2025
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Dining with a difference
In London, weird and wonderful dining experiences abound we've picked out the best three.
2 min |
April 17, 2025
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Bold, glamorous and unapologetic: visit Oceanus this Easter
The area around London's Carnaby Street is known for its cutting-edge fashion, and one of its rising stars is Oceanus the luxury swimwear and ready-to-wear label launched by designer Hannah Attalah.
1 min |
April 17, 2025
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SHARIA LONDON
'Back-room' councils which rule on Muslim marriages have been accused of misogyny and exploiting religious freedoms-and they are on the rise on the capital.
10+ min |
April 17, 2025
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Hidden London
SECRET SPOTS YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO DISCOVER
4 min |