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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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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
Evening Standard
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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February 20, 2024
Evening Standard
Burberry (and friends) give a masterclass in British swagger
AS A demonstration of imperial might, Burberry's show which closed London Fashion Week last night - was a masterclass.
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February 20, 2024
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London risks dying from its roots as families leave and schools close, experts warn
SCHOOL closures are creating “ghost areas” across London and destroying communities as so many children are leaving the capital, a headteacher warned today.
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February 20, 2024
Evening Standard
ROY'S DEPUTIES BOSS TONIGHT BEFORE SWITCH TO GLASNER
PADDY McCARTHY and Ray Lewington will take charge of Crystal Palace at Everton tonight, as the club waits to confirm the appointment of Oliver Glasner to replace Roy Hodgson.
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February 19, 2024
Evening Standard
STOKES IN LINE FOR BOWLING RETURN
SKIPPER COULD DEFY MEDICS BY RESUMING ALL-ROUNDER ROLE EARLY
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February 19, 2024
Evening Standard
Misfiring engine room must spark into life if England are to recover
THE gambling man's banker of the day sailed in not when Mark Wood's dismissal confirmed England's 434-run mauling in Rajkot yesterday, but when Ben Stokes spoke soon afterwards.
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February 19, 2024
Evening Standard
Chinese giant weighs up bid for Currys
A BID battle for Currys loomed today after China's largest online retailer said it is mulling a potential offer for the electricals chain.
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February 19, 2024
Evening Standard
The Arts Council England is wrong to think you can take the politics out of art
EARLIER this month, during the climax of Chicago rapper Noname's headline gig in London, she paused, cut the accompaniment, and addressed her sold-out audience. \"Can I hear you say free Palestine?\"
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February 19, 2024
Evening Standard
This awful rise in antisemitism has changed how I see London
IT’S only in the past few months that I’ve realised just how many Jewish friends I have. Of course, while I obviously know which of them are more fervent than others (the ones who openly discuss the Jewish experience), it’s only since the barbarity of October 7 that I’ve come to realise there are far more of them than I thought.
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February 19, 2024
Evening Standard
Have we fallen out of love with booze culture?
After a record dry January and the closure of yet more bars and clubs, Robbie Griffiths on why London is going sober
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February 19, 2024
Evening Standard
British ship evacuated after new strike by rebels
29,000 DEAD IN GAZA BUT NETANYAHU VOWS TO FINISH JOB’
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February 19, 2024
Evening Standard
Alexei Navalny was murdered with Novichok, claims his widow
THE widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny today claimed he was killed with the nerve agent Novichok.
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