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Victory for press as law firm gives up gagging issue

13.10.09
MPs celebrate a victory for press and internet freedom after one of Britain’s fiercest law firms abandoned a bid to gag the media from reporting Parliament... more

Samoan Islands a popular tourist destination

30.09.09
The two Samoan islands have grown in popularity with tourists in recent years despite their vulnerability to natural disasters... more

Grow your own: transforming skips into vegetable beds

13.08.09
The imaginative company Global Generation has transformed disused skips into vegetable beds, using an ingenious design.... more

Confessions of London's most dangerous woman

15.07.09
When Farah Damji, notorious conwoman and serial mistress, decided to write a memoir, she spared no one's blushes. But how much of it is true?... more

Cuts are necessary but spare Crossrail

02.07.09
The arguments between the political parties about spending cuts to meet the budget deficit have an air of unreality, given that few politicians are prepared actually to specify those projects they would be willing to sacrifice - Trident and ID cards apart... more

Glastonbury Festival is not just a beanfeast — it’s a £70 million business, too

19.06.09
Analysis: As the rock festivals season gets under way, Dominic Prince discovers just how lucrative Glastonbury is... more

Movie-maker has a GM revival script

03.06.09
Not many Americans loudly said they were “filled with joy” over General Motors being on its deathbed, with the tens of thousands of job losses that has wrought, but then Michael Moore is not most Americans...... more

Blears strikes a fresh blow against the PM

03.06.09
Gordon Brown had an uncomfortable time of it at Prime Minister’s Questions today. The task of tormenting him was almost too easy in the circumstances for Mr Cameron, the Tory leader, and Nick Clegg, of the Liberal Democrats... more

LATEST: Labour backbenchers plot to drive out Brown

03.06.09
A plot to oust Gordon Brown has been hatched by Labour backbenchers, the Standard can reveal today... more

Dame Liz Forgan to lead Arts Council

15.12.08
Arts Council England is set to be run by a woman for the first time in its history... more

Police chief blames prison place crisis on Government

04.09.08
A leading police officer has launched an outspoken attack on the early release of criminals... more

Bishops speak out over Ray Lewis affair

08.07.08
The two bishops at the centre of the Ray Lewis affair speak for the first time about their reluctance to reveal to Boris the past of the man he'd made his deputy mayor ... more

The gaping hole in the middle of Ken's thinking

08.05.08
Ken claims he was the victim of doughnut city, whereby London's inner core was betrayed by the Tory suburbs. But the people of Ilford and Hayes are just as much real Londoners as those of N1 ... more

A music revolution

07.05.08
When Kings Place Concert Hall opens later this year it will aim to prove that the arts can thrive without public money.... more

Stage is set for capital's first new concert hall in 26 years

29.04.08
The first concert hall to open in London since the Barbican in 1982 will be launched in October with a festival of 100 musical events... more

Snoop Dogg UK ban overturned

24.04.08
Rapper Snoop Dogg could be allowed back into the country after he was thrown out two years ago when he was arrested after a brawl at Heathrow.... more

Glastonbury organisers defend choice of hip-hop star Jay-Z as headline act

15.04.08
Glastonbury organisers have defended their decision to pick hip-hop star Jay-Z to headline this year's festival. Co-organiser Emily Eavis counter-attacked after Noel Gallagher claimed it was 'wrong' to give a rapper top billing at the festival ... more

Tesco under fire over its US expansion and slowing sales

08.04.08
Tesco's expansion in the United States comes under renewed attack from one its fiercest critics... more

Comment: mayoral race: all to play for

03.04.08
Today's ICM poll suggests the mayoral race is still wide open... more

Hodge: 'Proms are wrong kind of British'

04.03.08
Arts minister Margaret Hodge came under fire today after she attacked the Proms for failing to promote Britishness beyond a narrow audience... more

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