The Standard

Thirteen years after the original, Avatar is back. The second film in the franchise cost $250 million and is this year’s Christmas blockbuster. Writer & director James Cameron, has already shot a thir...

16 Dec 202211min

The season of strikes is in full swing and on Thursday it’s the turn of nurses and postal workers. The Royal College of Nursing say they’ve been left with no alternative but to hold the biggest indust...

15 Dec 202210min

There’s been yet another English Channel crossing tragedy. At least four people have died and 40 more have been rescued after a migrant boat capsized in sub-zero temperatures in the early hours of the...

14 Dec 202212min

It's the first day of a series of strikes where 40,000 rail workers will walk out across the country until the weekend. Britain’s train services have effectively been brought to a standstill while Tra...

13 Dec 202212min

Snow, ice and freezing fog has brought the capital to a halt. Drivers have been left stranded on the M25, flights cancelled, there’s mayhem on the rails and school closures a plenty.Ross Lydall, City ...

12 Dec 202211min

Giles Terera in Othello at the National Theatre leads a cast giving landmark performances. Plus, why Best of Enemies at the Noël Coward Theatre had the rare ingredients for five stars.The Evening Stan...

11 Dec 202213min

Josh Graff is Linkedin's MD for EMEA and LATAM. He joined the company 11 years ago, and has seen it evolve into one of the biggest, and most influential platforms in the world.In this bonus episode we...

10 Dec 202213min

In the third episode of the Evening Standard’s year-long series of specials called ‘Let Girls Learn’, we’re going to Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Lotus Flower is a non-profit organisation that suppo...

9 Dec 202210min