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The Evening Standard's City Hall Editor & Transport Editor, Ross Lydall, sits down with the shortlisted three Tory candidates hoping to represent their party in the 2024 London mayoral elections.  London Assembly member Susan Hall, tech entrepreneur Dan Korski and barrister Moz Hossain - who all want to be the one from the Conservatives to face Labour’s Sadiq Khan. We hear their personal...

The Mayor of London is facing one of his biggest tests yet with a legal showdown on 4th July over the expansion of the Ultra Low Emissions Zone. Five Tory councils claim the Mayor acted unlawfully in the way he proposed to widen the zone to the Greater London boundary on 29th August. Sadiq Khan’s controversial flagship policy to tackle the capital’s toxic air is emerging as a key issue in the 2024...

This is a bonus episode taken from our business show, How to be a CEO. Raphael Sofoluke is the CEO and founder of the Black Business Show, part of Black Business Week. The event is now the biggest in the UK and Europe, with around 15,000 attendees expected in 2023. But it started as a side-hustle! To hear the interview in full click this link. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

Record numbers of families are being put up in hotels in London . Being ghosted by agents and the “massive” rental affordability requirements. Raising a 3-year-old in a hotel room. 28-year-old mum Nicole Bent explains how she ended up living in a North London hotel, why it’s costing her so much in food, and what she thinks needs to change to help people in her position. In this episode: How Nicole...

How Boris Johnson committed a “serious, serious contempt” . 180-page report deconstructed. Boris brands report findings 'deranged’. Is his punishment enough? Our Chief Political Correspondent Rachael Burford discusses the report, what punishment awaits Mr Johnson, how the public might respond, and what might happen next . In this episode: The key points from the Privileges Committee’s report How B...

Six years after the Grenfell tragedy, survivors and witnesses tell their story from the night, and reveal the legacy left by the fire . Tiago Alves and Joe Delaney , who both escaped the building, are joined by our Crime Reporter John Dunne , and former Evening Standard photographer Jeremy Selwyn who both covered the Grenfell fire in 2017.  Please note: This episode contains the stories of Gr...

It’s the start of the Covid-19 Inquiry, where the way in which the Government handled the pandemic will be fully investigated.  It'll take at least three years to get all the answers, but at the heart of this inquiry are documents, WhatsApp messages and bereaved families waiting to know the truth. Tristan Kirk, the Evening Standard’s Courts Correspondent, takes us through the key moments of t...

Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson clash over honours list saga . Three by-elections triggered as Tory MPs quit. Can the Conservative Party bounce back from this latest drama? Our Political Editor Nicholas Cecil discusses the impact these resignations will have on the Conservative party, and how Rishi Sunak can bounce back from this latest set-back. In this episode: How the MP resignations came out of...

This is a bonus episode taken from our business show, How to be a CEO . Every start-up has an origin story. Vishal Marria’s is pretty dramatic. It began when he was just nine years old, and was attacked by four men who held a knife to his neck in a raid on his father’s cash and carry store. That traumatic moment sparked an interest in crime that took him into data analytics, and eventually the fou...

An art charity backed by Banksy, Tracey Emin and Gilbert & George is helping divert hundreds of young Londoners away from knife crime and serious violence every year - with creative disciplines from nail painting to podcasting. Now, Art Against Knives has produced a report with civil rights group Liberty in the hope of finding what it describes as a “non-policing solution” to London’s tragic b...

Universal basic income is the levelling up trial that’s been getting some considerable attention. Now, after projects testing the social welfare scheme in other parts of the world, two similar experiments for here in England are being drawn-up, one in north London’s East Finchley and the other in Jarrow, South Tyneside. In the capital, it would see 15 participants given £1,600 per month for two ye...

Apple says its eye-tracking Vision Pro mixed reality headset heralds the “era of spatial computing” to browse and game with a digitised version of the world overlaid onto actual reality. The tech giant's boss Tim Cook promises the nearly £3,000 Mac for your face will “unlock experience like nothing we’ve ever seen” in a new metaverse. But what are the risks to young minds from this increasingly im...

It’s day one for Prince Harry giving evidence in his claim against the publisher of the Daily Mirror - the first British royal to give court testimony in more than 130 years. This episode of the Leader podcast is brought to you, in part, from outside the Rolls Building of the Royal Courts of Justice in the City of London, where the Duke of Sussex is suing Mirror Group Newspapers for damages. He’s...

Thousands of London households are being hit with a fresh property squeeze as lenders hike interest rates again. Now, according to financial data firm Moneyfacts, the average two-year fixed-rate mortgage deal costs £35 more per month than it did a couple of weeks ago, following successive Bank of England base rate rises. It comes after TSB withdrew its ten-year fixed-rate, while Coventry Building...

This is a bonus episode taken from our business podcast, How to be a CEO. Recorded live at the Evening Standard’s SME EXPO at ExCel London, Casyo ‘Krept’ Johnson - one half of the hip-hop duo Krept & Konan - and influencer, Sasha Ellese Gilbert, share the story of how they co-founded the sell-out brand Nala's Baby. Originally devised in lockdown as a solution to their daughter's eczema, the co...

Pride month is officially here. Taking over the calendars every June, there’s events, festivals, exhibitions and even more, all celebrating the LGBTQ+ community.  El Hunt, feature writer for the Evening Standard, explains the importance of Pride and gives you her top picks on the best things to see and do.  In part two, we look at why we’re in the midst of a noughties revival with music...

After warnings from experts that artificial intelligence could lead to extinction, the Evening Standard’s senior feature writer and commissioning editor, Katie Strick, takes us on a deep dive into the risks of the technology. What the research suggests, the predictions from leading figures, and ultimately, just how worried we should all be about AI. You can read more on this story here: https://ww...

It’s the first of three days of industrial action affecting trains this week. Unions are being accused of targeting big events as the latest action comes at half term and with the FA Cup final at Wembley. Rachael Burford, the Evening Standard’s Chief Political Correspondent, explains everything you need to know about the latest round of rail strikes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Warning, this podcast episode contains strong language as well as major spoilers for the last episode ever of Succession.  We now know the identity of Waystar Royco’s next CEO, the actual successor. Four seasons, 39 episodes, umpteen brutal insults, thousands of f-bombs and countless amounts of family backstabbing… have amounted to this final decision.   The Evening Standard’s Eliza...

Recorded in April for How to be a CEO this is a cut-down bonus episode as part of Leader Weekends. When you’re rushing to become a CEO, or have the job and are just trying to stay on top of it all, the idea of a day off may be laughable at times. But securing a fair work/life balance can be an achievement in itself. How’s this for an idea: A four-day week? Anne-Marie Lister is the chief people off...

The town of Kiruna in Sweden is being moved building by building to facilitate new mining activity, in what’s thought to be Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth metals . But do we need to mine for such materials? Can we recycle what we already have instead? Kiruna’s Head of Planning Nina Eliason discusses the move, and Anders Lindberg from mining firm LKAB explains what they hope to recover from...

After the death of the 80s music icon , the Evening Standard's Robert Dex discusses the ups and downs of her life and career, her incredible 80s comeback, the moment she left him starstruck, and the legacy she leaves behind . In this episode: How Tina Turner left Rob starstruck Why her 80s comeback was so special The abuse Tina suffered and how she dealt with it How Tina turned to Buddhism What wi...

Taken from our theatre podcast , Eddie Izzard speaks with the Evening Standard’s Chief Theatre Critic Nick Curtis about her one-woman adaptation of Dickens’s Great Expectations, her gender fluidity, and her personal drive to succeed. In this episode: Izzard explains her names & pronouns How Izzard’s one-woman Great Expectations show was born Why it was launched in New York How Izzard’s adapted...

Warning, this podcast episode contains strong language as well as major spoilers for the ninth episode of the final season of Succession.  The Evening Standard’s Elizabeth Gregory, Hamish MacBain and Martin Robinson are here to review the penultimate episode of Succession.  It was one hell of a send off for Logan Roy. The show’s best characters returned for the epic high-pressure funeral...

The US candy stores of Oxford Street: business rates unpaid, illegal goods seized and money laundering exposed . The Evening Standard’s Anthony France discusses the criminality behind some of the American sweet shops along the capital’s most popular shopping promenade, and how authorities are fighting back against them. In this episode: The shops selling counterfeit goods How Anthony was “stonewal...