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Evening Standard column

Andrew Neather

Boris Johnson on train

£50bn down the line, trains are worse than ever

Far from the grandiose promises of ministers and the Queen's Speech, there's a more simple statement that sums up the start of the day for thousands in the nation's capital

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At its best, Chablis is elegant and sublime

Is there a white wine more individual or more misunderstood than Chablis?

Buggy recall won't stop kids having accidents

Riding through the park yesterday, my four-year-old daughter went flying, having been attempting to ride her scooter one-handed

Wines you can drink with pheasant

Pheasant is rich enough to need a wine with some body to it but there are plenty of whites up to the task as well as reds

Europe's first W Hotel makes Barcelona even sexier

As if the Catalan capital wasn't achingly hip enough, Europe's first W Hotel is set to make it even sexier. Andrew Neather did his best to fit in with the cool crowd

Top red wines for winter

Early this year I praised the 2007 southern Rhône reds, then being offered en primeur. Now on the shelves, they just look better and better

Three top Italian wines

It's the sheer individuality of so many Italian wines that is so thrilling

How I became the story and why the Right is wrong

There's an old maxim among journalists that you shouldn't let yourself become the story. As the Evening Standard's long-serving comment editor, I'm mostly happy to commission others to write on these pages and let them take both plaudits and flak

It’s time to toughen up the rules for HGVs

The Mayor’s safety plan is a welcome recognition of the dangers cyclists face. If he is serious about his ambitious targets for increasing the number on the capital’s roads, we badly need to make cyclists — especially new ones — feel safer

Don't listen to the whingers - London needs immigrants

Amid the sound and fury over Nick Griffin, there's a sad but unnoticed fact: it has taken this fiasco to make politicians talk about the impact of immigration

Warm up with red wine this winter

The chill of autumn is finally with us, and this Saturday the clocks go back too. There’s simply nothing for it but to open a bottle of seriously warming red

Slovakia travel: Sausages and snow

It may not be fashionable but a Slovakian family snow holiday will have the children begging to go back, says Andrew Neather

The discerning drinker: Spanish wines of the week

In the spirit of Iberica’s uncompromisingly authentic regional selection, here are a few top Spanish wines

Drinking champagne will never lose its fizz

It was a performance to chill the heart of any Tory spin doctor. Boris Johnson, Mayor of the world's most international city, calling for an EU referendum to stick it to Johnny Foreigner?

Beat the booze ban: stand up to the picnic police

What could be nicer than a bottle of wine shared with friends over a picnic in the park on a summer's afternoon?

The conference speeches that fall on deaf ears

For a communications technology used by Cicero, political speeches are remarkably resilient

Power and the glory of The Grand Hotel

Brighton’s landmark hotel has seen it all, from the IRA bomb to Tony Blair’s reaction to 9/11. Next week’s conference gatherers will find it has lost none of its grandeur

Crack down on all the menaces on our roads

If you’re careless — as a driver, cyclist or pedestrian — you should take the consequences

Can Morrisons come between me and Ocado?

Could Morrisons get the last laugh on the middle-class urbanites like me who turned their noses up when the cut-price northern store first moved south?

Let there be low-energy light – but recycle it

The biggest problem involved in the switchover to low-energy bulbs is what to do with them when they finally give out

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