Is this Eurovision’s most controversial year?
As excitement builds around the Eurovision Song Contest, The London Standard’s Commissioning Editor and Culture Writer Vicky Jessop highlights the standout acts to watch — amid ongoing protests and co...
16 Maj 202515min
The young Londoners turning to sugar daddies to pay their rent
Claudia Cockerell shares the sour truth about London’s sugar babies, who are dating older, wealthy men to fund their lives in a cost of living crisis.And reporter Megan Howe joins us from the High Cou...
15 Maj 202515min
London's housing crisis explained - and why it's only getting worse
The Government has slashed Sir Sadiq Khan’s affordable housing targets after the number of affordable homes being started in London last year was revealed to be the second lowest on record.Local democ...
14 Maj 202514min
The backlash against Keir Starmer’s immigration speech
Chief political correspondent Rachael Burford joins us to discuss the backlash against Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s migration reforms, with his immigration speech likened by MPs to the rhetoric of En...
13 Maj 202514min
The illegal truth behind some of London’s top restaurants
Chief political correspondent Rachael Burford joins us to discuss the secret underground world propping up some of the capital’s most-hyped restaurants, fuelled by illegal immigration.And in part two,...
12 Maj 202512min
Why cases of blackmail and sextortion are on the rise
Between 2023 and 2024, police recorded a record high of 37,959 blackmail offences in England and Wales but what’s behind the increase in this type of crime? Alexandra McCready is Head of Reputation an...
9 Maj 202515min
What can we learn from the VE Day commemorations?
After several days of commemoration events to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, culminating in a memorial service today at Westminster Abbey, we’re joined by Laura Clouting, Senior Curator at the I...
8 Maj 202514min
India launches missiles into Pakistan-controlled territory
Tensions are rising between two nuclear powers after India launched missile strikes into Pakistan-controlled territory. Pakistan’s calling it an “act of war”. The London Standard’s reporter Jacob Phil...
7 Maj 202513min
