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Mother’s Day: The ultimate guide to treating foodie mums

Spoil Mum this year with Hannah Twiggs and James Schaak’s roundup of the best places to eat, gifts to send and meals to cook

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2022

Londoner’s Diary: Walters: I’ve cut out Clarke since sex claims

Today’s Diary: Walters cuts out Clarke - mostly / Ed Balls’ plans for more midlife larks / Naked at the National / Israeli Embassy apartheid row / Hancock dyslexia

Evening Standard · Mar 21, 2022

Londoner’s Diary: Sadiq Khan and Nadine Dorries clash over arts cuts in capital

Today’s Diary: Khan and Dorries create drama at the National Theatre / Dame Zandra Rhodes criminal record keeps her grounded / Ideas for empty Buckingham Palace / Documentary director hits back at Gove

Evening Standard · Mar 16, 2022

Londoner’s Diary: Ian McEwan in Bloomsbury tree showdown

NOVELIST Ian McEwan is in an unexpected face-off with an august international charity over a pair of troublesome London plane trees in swish Bloomsbury.

Evening Standard · Feb 18, 2022

Londoner’s Diary: British Museum defends move into digital art market

The British Museum dips a toe into NFTs / PinkPantheress on how she broke the US / Sadie Frost relives carefree youth / Dave Benett puts on a party

Evening Standard · Feb 17, 2022

Londoner’s Diary: ‘Theatre society needed to take lead during Covid’

IT’S daggers drawn in the West End as a leading producer Michael Rose takes aim at the august Society of London Theatre, which he says was weak during the pandemic.

Evening Standard · Feb 11, 2022

Londoner’s Diary: Ben Okri’s fury at claims his novel was ghostwritten

NOVELIST Ben Okri tells us he is “really furious” about a false claim from a ghostwriting agency that they had written parts of his Booker prize-winning novel The Famished Road.

Evening Standard · Feb 10, 2022

Londoner’s Diary: Carrie is steeped in the Westminster bubble, says friend of biographer

LORD Ashcroft is “a bit baffled” by criticism of his forthcoming biography of Carrie Johnson, The Londoner understands.

Evening Standard · Feb 8, 2022

Londoner’s Diary: Fashion’s more diverse than it was — but I still have to change to fit in

DESIGNER and artist Osman Yousefzada says despite the progress the fashion industry has made on diversity, “I still code-switch” — a term for using a different way of speaking in different places.

Evening Standard · Feb 7, 2022

Londoner’s Diary: Gift to Coleridge Trust in drive to save poet’s grave

THE FIGHT to save poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Highgate grave from “benign neglect” has entered a new phase, The Londoner has learnt, following a £20,000 donation to the trust concerned.

Evening Standard · Feb 4, 2022