The London Evening Standard's Dispossessed campaign scooped two major honours at the British Press Awards - the newspaper industry's equivalent of the Oscars... more
Tracey Emin, faced with the prospect of a 50 per cent tax rate, has announced that she is "very seriously considering leaving Britain" for France, where they "have lower tax rates and they appreciate arts and culture"... more
Bernie Madoff, Allen Stanford and the other credit-crunch rogues have given wealth management a bad name but the industry itself is hardly on its knees. The Scorpio Partnership's newly released annual survey of the global wealth business found that assets under management slumped by an average of 15.7% in 2008 while profits at private banks crashed by 32.9% ... more
Tony Ball may not be happy to see this article. The former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB is quietly campaigning to be the next boss of ITV. His fans - and there are a good number in the City - say he looks like the man to beat in the race to succeed Michael Grade... more
A charity supporting some of London's most deprived children is celebrating a £200,000 windfall - thanks to the generosity of Evening Standard readers... more
With less than three days to go in the Evening Standard Christmas charity auction, there are still many "once in a lifetime" experiences to be bought for bargain prices... more
From David Cameron to Barack Obama, everyone's using the the new political buzzword. Here a historian asks what it means, and four writers explain how change affects us all
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Nicolas Klotz's brilliant Heartbeat Detector shows it's all too easy for large companies and organisations to dehumanise the consequences of their actions.... more
Our report today on Metronet, the consortium which was responsible for the upkeep of most of the Underground before its spectacular collapse, focuses on the award of a contract to a company without any obvious qualifications for the job but with close links to one of the Metronet managers... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do