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Oh, it’s the Shane story at Lloyds...

05.11.09
On BBC news, Lloyds Banking Group’s in-house PR Shane O’Riordain says: “Lloyds is a strong, well-capitalised bank.” ... more

Book now to be bankrupted by booking fees

04.11.09
Milk rounds return to London. Remember them? So-called "milkmen" bring milk in so-called "milk bottles" on an electric vehicle which wakes you up at four o'clock in the morning by sounding like there's a mosquito next to your head... more

Conservative Party conference diary

07.10.09
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Tory MEP and the Kazakhs

01.10.09
What a strange contradiction Tory MEP Struan Stevenson is. On the one hand he has visited Kazakhstan on no fewer than 10 separate occasions to investigate the effects of Soviet-era nuclear explosions on the inhabitants there... ... more

Labour face election hammer blow in London 'landslip'

25.09.09
Labour faces general election disaster in London that will put more than a third of its sitting MPs in danger, Evening Standard research reveals... more

Why do so few politicians go to the Proms?

15.09.09
It is always said that women have to worry about what they wear and men do not. Yet women are making decisions based on aesthetics whereas for men they touch a fundamental sense of identity... more

Ronnie Biggs and Lockerbie bomber release link is 'ridiculous'

11.09.09
Suggestions that the decision to free Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was prompted by the impending release of the Lockerbie bomber have been dismissed as 'absurd and offensive'... more

High-wire Alan Duncan falls from favour

08.09.09
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Baby P chief: Ministers treated me like Jamie Bulger's killers

01.09.09
Sharon Shoesmith, the Haringey official sacked in wake of Baby P, claims she has been treated as badly by Ministers as James Bulger killers... more

Top Tory claimed £17,000 for gardening at Kent home

01.06.09
Former Tory leader Michael Howard became the latest Conservative to come under fire over their country homes today as it emerged the taxpayer paid for £17,000 of his gardening work... more

Rebels in the vote

01.05.09
The vote to scrap second home allowances for outer London MPs was opposed by 39 Members... more

Truth makes children tolerant, not gay

29.04.09
Imagine if, at the age of 11, your class at school had been sat down and told a few dry and rather uninteresting truths about homosexuality... more

My blue movie scare when I was married to a Home Secretary

30.03.09
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Goldman goes quiet about rewarding staff

30.03.09
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Ministers admit: 'We pay our husbands and wives'

12.03.09
Nearly 30 members of the Government employ their family at the taxpayer's expense, the Evening Standard can reveal... more

Cashmere and influence at Brompton Bar and Grill

09.02.09
There's nothing familiar about the new-look Brompton Bar & Grill. Fading Frenchness has been replaced with a sleek, contemporary look.... more

The Speaker’s crucial errors

03.12.08
The statement by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, about the arrest of the Tory frontbencher, Damian Green last week, was not intended to turn into a full-blown debate... more

Mandy imitates Cameron to coach Brown

24.11.08
Lord Mandelson has been impersonating David Cameron to prepare Gordon Brown for Prime Minister's Questions, it was claimed... more

There’s still such a thing as a free lunch

03.11.08
After being told last week that they will not receive their regular share of the firm's profits for the next six months, partners at City law firm Eversheds seem desperate to hold on to their perks... more

Did Cameron let the cat out of the bag?

10.10.08
Michael Howard’s call for the Financial Services Authority to investigate the source of Robert Peston’s story about confidential talks between banking chiefs, the Chancellor and Bank of England Governor Mervyn King that sparked a plunge in bank shares on Tuesday morning is interesting. ... more

Calls for probe to find the BBC 'mole in the City'

09.10.08
MPs have demanded a probe into whether City "dirty tricks" were behind the BBC's scoop on the Government's bank rescue plan.... more

The Tories’ golden duo on the right road

10.09.08
The Cameron-Osborne combination is a proven success – but it must ensure that it does not presume too much... more

The night even Liz Hurley got squiffy... and she wasn't the only one

03.09.08
Elizabeth Hurley has perfected the art of red carpet glamour. But even she succumbed to the lure of the free bar at last night's star-studded GQ awards and left the event looking uncharacteristically worse for wear. ... more

A bunch of golds at GQ awards

03.09.08
The lustre of Olympic gold shone brightly even among the stars at the GQ Men Of The Year Awards when five of Britain's record haul of medal winners were surprise guests... more

Boris Johnson's CV

02.05.08
The life of Boris Johnson...... more

Cyclist hurt in MP crash

04.04.08
A police investigation is under way after a Conservative MP knocked over a cyclist with his 4x4 outside Parliament... more

Clinton campaign manager joins the Paddick team

10.03.08
A senior US political strategist who worked on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has been hired by Brian Paddick... more

Boris plans late Tube at weekend

03.03.08
Tube trains would run an hour later on Friday and Saturday nights - and extra police would patrol Tube and railway stations - under plans unveiled by Boris Johnson... more

Smiling at Smith's

24.09.07
Smiling service and customers can be found at Smiths of Smithfield, not to mention enormous portions of lip-smacking grub.... more

Dining dens where the plot thickens

13.09.06
Forget the Commons - London's finest restaurants are where all of the real political scheming takes place, as former Labour minister Gerald Kaufman reveals.... more

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