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 ...
30 Juli 202013min
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...
29 Juli 202015min
£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 ev...
28 Juli 202014min
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 Baleari...
27 Juli 202013min
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 la...
24 Juli 202017min
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 fo...
23 Juli 202011min
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 ...
22 Juli 202013min
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 it...
21 Juli 202014min
