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Aug 7, 2020 · 13 min
Thousands of at-risk young people not visited by children’s services in lockdown, and the UK 'wants Biden to be President'
A special Evening Standard investigation has found thousands of vulnerable young people weren’t visited by children's services during lockdown. In the three months to June 30, face-to-face visits by children’s services plummeted 75 percent in some...
Aug 6, 2020 · 14 min
The Hiroshima legacy, 75 years on; and how lockdown's made it harder to catch terrorists.
What is the legacy of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bomb attacks? 75 years on, survivors have contributed to an oral history of that's being exhibited at the Imperial War Museum, with a message that governments must to do more to ban nuclear ...
Aug 5, 2020 · 13 min
Beirut after the blast: How does the city recover? And could Tik Tok be coming to London?
There's anger on the streets of Beirut after an explosion with a quarter of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb's power ripped apart the port area of the city. From there, journalist Nada Homsi tells us blame appears to be focusing o...
Aug 4, 2020 · 18 min
After Donald Trump's 'car crash’ Axios interview, why do politicians put themselves through it? And four weeks to save London's summer
Donald Trump's opponents have seized on a television interview in which the US President struggles to defend the country's record on coronavirus. He's also been criticised for dismissing civil rights leader John Lewis' legacy, and t...
Aug 3, 2020 · 13 min
London's "critical" moment as coronavirus rises again; and will Eat Out to Help Out save our restaurants?
The World Health Organisation's Dr David Nabarro's told the Evening Standard London is "at a critical time" in its battle against coronavirus. He's spoken to our deputy political editor Nicholas Cecil, who says the warning come...
Jul 31, 2020 · 15 min
What's going on with the UK's coronavirus restrictions? And, how big tech made a fortune during the pandemic lockdown
Boris Johnson has cancelled major moves out of lockdown including the reopening of wedding parties and casinos in response to a rise in coronavirus cases. The Prime Minister called a press conference to announce that he was “squeezing...
Jul 30, 2020 · 13 min
Britain tops Europe's toll of excess deaths during the coronavirus pandemic, & clampdown on drivers risking cyclist's lives
Britain suffered the worst excess death rate in the whole of Western Europe during the coronavirus pandemic. Official statistics lay bare what many experts suspected, that the UK’s mortality rate was raised cumulatively higher by the end of Ma...
Jul 29, 2020 · 15 min
Where's the UK's plan for a second coronavirus wave? And is #ChallengeAccepted really "selfish narcissism?"
Ministers are on standby to impose quarantine measures on more countries amid fears that a second wave of coronavirus cases could undermine the reopening of schools in September. But is the government making up its Covid-19 counter-strategy "on th...
Jul 28, 2020 · 14 min
£2 billion to get you on a bike, but is the money going to the right places? & the Design Museum's "rallying cry for clubbing"
Will a £50 bicycle repair voucher, or even one on prescription from your GP, be enough to get you cycling? Boris Johnson's calling his £2bn package to get people onto two wheels "the most ambitious ever" but campaigners...
Jul 27, 2020 · 13 min
Can we go on holiday abroad or not? And is the Harry & Meghan book damaging royal relations?
The Evening Standard's Amira Hashish was one of thousands of tourists caught out when the government suddenly decided to impose lockdown restrictions on travellers returning from Spain and the Balearics. She joins the podcast to tell us how the ne...
Jul 24, 2020 · 17 min
KT Tunstall on how to save live music, Taylor Swift's new album and why Kanye's troubles are "difficult to watch".
Singer KT Tunstall joins the Leader for a special episode looking at the resurgence of culture as lockdown eases. Along with the Evening Standard's showbiz journalist Lizzie Edmonds we ask does the launch of Taylor Swift's new album and the o...
Jul 23, 2020 · 11 min
Why won't FTSE100 firms get staff back to the office? And meet the Covid Contrarians who won't wear face masks.
The full scale of the battle to save central London’s economy has been laid bare with an Evening Standard survey finding many workers in Britain’s top companies are set to stay away from the office for months. We've spoken to FTS...
Jul 22, 2020 · 13 min
Does Labour's compensation to anti-Semitism whistleblowers draw a line under the Corbyn era? And why covid shouldn't drive us back to cars
The Labour Party has agreed to pay "substantial damages" to seven ex-employees following a BBC Panorama investigation into anti-Semitism within the party. The whistleblowers, who were responsible for the probe into alleged misconduct...
Jul 21, 2020 · 14 min
Russia report: UK ‘actively avoided looking for evidence’ of Russian interference in Brexit, plus could confusion over face masks lead to a second coronavirus spike?
A long-awaited report into Russian interference in the UK has made a bombshell claim: the Government ‘actively avoided looking for evidence’ of a threat from the Kremlin. MI5 is also criticised for its response to the Intelligence and Security Committe...
Jul 20, 2020 · 15 min
Coronavirus vaccine hopes as UK secures 90 million ‘promising’ doses. And will Kanye West be president?
Offering a glimmer of hope in the fight against coronavirus, the UK has secured 90 million ‘promising’ Covid-19 vaccine doses being developed globally. That’s on top of 100 million doses of a vaccine developed by Oxford University, that today announced...
Jul 17, 2020 · 13 min
Could coronavirus really be over by Christmas? And how did the Queen knight Colonel Sir Tom Moore while socially distancing?
Boris Johnson's told the UK he hopes the country will return to "normality" by Christmas. But the Prime Minister's also admitting it's a "hope" and he has to prepare for the worst. Mr Johnson's been outlining the...
Jul 16, 2020 · 12 min
Boris Johnson wants you back in the office, but will you go? And was the Twitter hack an inside job?
Almost a third of London commuters who are working from home say they do not expect to return to their offices before Christmas, according to poll findings seen by the Evening Standard. The results suggest that the struggling central London ec...
Jul 15, 2020 · 9 min
How coronavirus is causing a boom in illegal wildlife poaching
Wildlife experts have alerted the Evening Standard that a global conservation “crisis” is unfolding as the disruption caused by Covid-19 causes a surge in the poaching of species for the illegal wildlife trade. India, Nepal, Pakistan ...
Jul 14, 2020 · 13 min
Mandatory face masks are coming in, so why isn't Michael Gove wearing one? And just how bad is the UK's financial future?
On the day the government announced it's introducing mandatory face masks in shops, Michael Gove's been seen walking into a coffee shop without one. Meanwhile, his cabinet colleague Liz Truss had one on when she went into the same pl...
Jul 13, 2020 · 13 min
London’s economic crisis revealed: Coronavirus causes worst outlook since WW2
Central London is facing the biggest economic crisis in generations with tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of businesses at risk of being wiped out in Britain’s most vibrant economic powerhouse. An Evening Standard investigation has unear...