Lucian Freud gives a rare interview about dancing with Greta Garbo, photographing Adolf Hitler, getting into debt with the Krays and being kept waiting by Kate Moss
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Gordon Brown talks frankly to Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig about his devoted wife, the grief that won't go away and his strategy to win the election
He was the poet laureate whose harsh, dark evocations of nature made him a staple of the school curriculum even as his doomed marriage to fellow writer Sylvia Plath made him a hate figure for extreme feminists
As he launches a new album, Sting reflects on rock-star living, what's killing pop today and why he is determined to play on.
Tory leader David Cameron talks revealingly about colleagues, policy and the faith that guides him
From today more Londoners than ever before will be able to pick up the West End Final edition of the London Evening Standard with the very latest news
Christopher Bailey and Angela Ahrendts are fashion’s ultimate — and most unlikely — power couple. Here, they explain how they made Burberry a world leader
In a rare interview, grand old man of British art Frank Auerbach talks about his agonising search for perfection, 18-hour days in his Camden studio — and why he’ll never give up
In a rare public appearance, TS Eliot's widow Valerie attended a reading of her husband's poems last night at London University
Gilbert and George dress Christ in a flag as they explore religion and patriotism in a major new exhibition
Exclusive: painter reveals how phone has transformed his work ... and gives every Standard reader a picture
A year after becoming Mayor, Boris Johnson meets Evening Standard Editor Geordie Greig
Plus Taylors of Harrogate's Decaffè coffee, a cafetière and a coffee scoop.
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