HSBC job losses: why we need to fight the City’s corner; Sadiq Khan explains his EU “associate citizenship” plan; & London Fashion Week reviewed.
Can UK banks survive in the era of the US megabank? There are worrying signs with HSBC announcing 35,000 job losses, just days after a similar move at RBS. The Evening Standard’s business news editor ...
18 Feb 202015min
Should the UK get British nationals off the coronavirus cruise ship? Also, assessing the damage from Storm Dennis; and big changes at London’s Museum of Childhood
The US and Australia are among countries that have now vowed to get their citizens off a cruise ship moored off Japan, with coronavirus on-board. So far, the UK government’s not committed to the same ...
17 Feb 202010min
Could London cope with a Coronavirus pandemic? And a call for environmental ‘sustainability’ at London Fashion Week
There’s a worrying warning from grassroots lobbying group The Doctors’ Association UK that London’s hospitals are under-prepared for tackling a spread of coronavirus. Evening Standard features writer ...
14 Feb 202012min
Sajid Javid resigns as Chancellor: Why? Plus, who is his replacement Rishi Sunak; and why Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt is “a masterwork”
Sajid Javid has resigned as Chancellor amid reports of a row between him and Prime Minister Boris Johnson. What really happened behind closed doors in Downing Street? The Evening Standard’s political ...
13 Feb 202016min
Coronavirus: How Covid-19 is keeping brands away from London Fashion Week. Also, is Bernie Sanders on track for White House win?
Coronavirus has been given a new name by the scientists trying to defeat it. In today’s podcast, we talk to Evening Standard deputy political editor Nicholas Cecil about why the World Health Organisat...
12 Feb 202014min
Jamaica deportation row leaves 25 offenders in UK; HS2 green light; Pete Buttigieg's Oxford student days
25 foreign national offenders are still in the UK after being pulled from a deportation flight that was supposed to take them to Jamaica. The Evening Standard's Home Affairs Editor Martin Bentham expl...
11 Feb 202012min
The British Coronavirus 'super-spreader' linked to 6 UK cases; and how 'Parasite' has changed the Oscars forever
A British businessman is being linked to 6 Coronavirus cases in the UK and 4 more in other countries. The Evening Standard's Health Editor Ross Lydall explains how the so-called 'super-spreader' has b...
10 Feb 202014min
Coronavirus cruise ship horror could help win the race to find a vaccine
There are more than 30,000 confirmed cases of Coronavirus around the world, but the number could much higher. Right now there’s a global race to produce a vaccine, as the death toll rises towards 700....
7 Feb 20209min
