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Judith Chalmers: The ‘Wish You Were Here’ presenter’s cheeky confession that became a talking point

ITV’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ ran for almost three decades and pulled in 18 million viewers per episode at its peak

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The dangers of blurring fact and fiction in Holocaust TV narratives

In 2020, streaming platform Amazon Prime released Hunters, a thriller mystery about apprehending and eliminating Nazi war criminals living incognito in the United States.

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OPINION - Gary Lineker is another wounded patriarch who wants to be liked by people who post online

The former Match of the Day host is now free to express his populist views, writes Tanya Gold

Evening Standard

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Inside this week's London Standard

Welcome to your latest edition of The London Standard. This week, we explore the complex issue of how Meghan Markle became so staggeringly divisive. Tanya Gold asks what she has done to deserve this treatment, in a piece that’s clever, funny and remarkably astute about a fairy tale gone wrong…

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OPINION - Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and the self-deception of the very rich and famous

As fire rages in Los Angeles, Meghan Markle postpones her new lifestyle programme for Netflix, which was supposed to come out this week. It’s called With Love, Meghan. It is the function of royalty to play the archetype — naive, goddess, witch — and I wonder if, with the postponement,…

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OPINION - Lily Phillips, OnlyFans and the big lie that sex work is good for you

In January, Lily Phillips says, she will sleep with a thousand men in 24 hours for her OnlyFans site. I have seen the flyer: to apply you must send in a headshot and hold your photo ID close to your face. This reads like a parody of the physical contortions…

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OPINION - As Gregg Wallace’s career burns, I’m certain we will ignore the deeper lesson

Each day, like credulous children, we rediscover misogyny anew as if putting our hands in the earth and pulling out something astonishing. What is this strange thing? What is its nature?

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OPINION - Jacob Rees-Mogg's reality TV show will mark a new low in Britain — and it could be Nigel Farage next

Meet the Rees-Moggs, the reality TV show about Jacob Rees-Mogg and his family is here, and it will be fascinating, because he is. It is easy to take him at face value, which means his own terms: an old Etonian with a moldering manor house, a rich wife, mesmerizingly named…

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OPINION - The London Question: should these pro-Palestine marches be allowed?

If you are a liberal, as Londoners should be — this is the second most multicultural city on earth — you can hold two ideas in your head at once. The first is that the so-called “pro-Palestine” marches in London — I doubt their “pro” nature, as some seem keener…

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OPINION - Can King Charles and the British monarchy survive in the age of global social justice?

Yesterday Charles III was heckled in Parliament House in Canberra. He might consider it a happy milestone: he has only been on the throne two years. Lidia Thorpe, an Indigenous independent senator, shouted: “You committed genocide against our people. Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from…

Evening Standard

As tourists flock to St Ives, local people are paying a heavy price

Letters: Michael Bird fears the patient zero of British overtourism may soon end up on life support. Will Sleath says the town is definitely not desolate in winter

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Has mass tourism gone too far? Inside the 16 August Guardian Weekly

Why holiday hotspots have had enough. Plus: America’s Kamala and Tim show.

The Guardian - UK

Britain's rollercoaster-riding Liberal Democrat leader embraces stunts to gain election attention

Most politicians try to avoid slips, stumbles and undignified photos

The Independent UK

It’s the Sunak syndrome: you’re richer than the king but only ‘pass’ at being posh. That’s the class system for you

Like the characters in Ripley and Saltburn, the perfectly well-to-do PM longs to be even better-to-do, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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OPINION - Londoners are dissatisfied with Sadiq Khan – and look set to hand him a landslide victory

It is difficult to imagine a more benign environment for an incumbent. Sadiq Khan is the Labour candidate in a city that delivered Labour a landslide victory in 2019, even as Jeremy Corbyn led the party to electoral oblivion.

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OPINION - Columns of the year: All of London life in 2023 through our writers’ eyes

From the Sussexes’ woes to the bully XL debate, from the state of US politics to the conflict in Gaza, the Evening Standard’s comment team have been as incisive as ever

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OPINION - The Covid-19 Inquiry reminds us that the past is never dead – it's not even past

No one owns the news cycle. If you want it, you have to earn it. So while Rishi Sunak was making a speech in north London about the taxes he may or may not cut, attention was drawn across town, towards the Covid Inquiry and Sir Patrick Vallance.

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OPINION - A generic Labour candidate plus a generic Tory candidate will produce a generic result in London

Politicians are not widely trusted. In fact, they are the least trusted profession in the UK, with only 12 per cent believing they generally tell the truth. The most trusted are nurses (89 per cent), followed by engineers (87 per cent) and doctors (85 per cent). Journalists are... well, we're…

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OPINION - Why Taylor Swift is bigger than The Beatles (but smaller than the French economy)

If you want to annoy an economist, try mixing up stock and flow. This is a mistake commonly made even by business journalists (though not Jonathan Prynn, of course) when attempting to describe the value of large companies.

Evening Standard

OPINION - How to get from Old Oak Common to Birmingham in 23 years

Infrastructure is good. Countries and regions with more factories, power supplies, ports, telecommunications and yes, rail lines, tend to be wealthier than those with fewer.

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OPINION - Will Jeremy Corbyn’s super-sized ego really scupper Sadiq Khan’s hopes to return as London mayor?

When will Jeremy Corbyn’s vanity — his most essential characteristic — run out? Still MP for Islington North but denied the Labour whip for stating that the problem of anti-Semitism under his leadership “was dramatically overstated for political reasons”, he keeps his supporters on tenterhooks with a constant drip of…

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OPINION - We call it ‘cost of living’ but the truth is people cannot afford to eat

Each Sunday I cook a meal for 20 people. I don’t have 20 friends: this meal is for the guests of the Street Food Project in Penzance. Its remit to is provide a hot meal 365 days of the year to anyone who needs it, and it has never failed…

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OPINION - Drill, baby, drill: Rishi Sunak junks the Tory green brand

I’m afraid I have what might be shocking news – Ken Clarke is quite right-wing. He may hold heterodox views on Europe (a conviction that cost him the party leadership on multiple occasions), but Clarke’s reputation as a Tory ‘wet’ belies both his record and his admiration for Margaret Thatcher.

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OPINION - Fate has handed Rishi Sunak a bad hand, but he must still play boldly

Rishi Sunak is reportedly unhappy as Prime Minister: I am not surprised. He is too shiny — possibly even too idealistic— to appreciate the novelistic possibilities of decline. It seems unlikely that he will be a successful Prime Minister — 13 years are stacked against him, alongside the furies of…

Evening Standard

OPINION - Why won’t Rishi Sunak say how (or if) he will vote on Partygate report?

Less than 12 months ago, he was prime minister. Barely a year before that, it seemed not inconceivable he could govern for a decade (people make fun of this tweet but it was right at the time).

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