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These are the best florists in London right now

If you’re going to say it with flowers this Valentine’s Day, here are the best bouquets in town

Evening Standard · Feb 13

Picture exclusive: Old City Hall transformation underway as Sadiq Khan's former HQ is dismantled

Four years after the Greater London Authority departed, renovation of iconic ‘glass testicle’ near Tower Bridge gathers pace

Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2025

Hidden London: Hornets, Kensington

Hornets is what might today be called a vintage gentlemen’s outfitters. But really, says David Ellis, it’s a treasure trove of extraordinary stories

Evening Standard · Sep 20, 2025

Sadiq Khan: my 10-year plan to clean up London’s rivers – just like its air

The Mayor of London sits down with Dylan Jones for a chat about politics, traffic – and his status as an unlikely sex symbol

Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2024

Notting Hill area guide: Imogen Kwok on her 'sweet life loop' in an area that's nothing like NYC

The chef and food designer swapped hectic New York for Notting Hill – and shares its goldmine of grocers, delis and restaurants

Evening Standard · Aug 8, 2024

Ibai restaurant review: City boy steakhouse shows the finger to culinary restraint

The lasting sense here is of a thoroughly impressive paradox: this is a bustling, Basque asador in a shiny, sprawled air hangar of a space

Evening Standard · Jul 31, 2024

Rats, overcrowding and urgent riot warnings — my day inside a London jail

Britain’s jails are “on the precipice of failure”, with warnings that jails could run out of space within days. As Keir Starmer announces emergency measures to fix the crisis, Katie Strick spends a day on the frontline

Evening Standard · Jul 3, 2024

Election London: Finchley in the balance as Labour and Conservatives fight for Jewish voters

Thatcher’s old constituency, which has Britain’s biggest Jewish electorate, relegated Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour to third place in 2019

Evening Standard · Jun 28, 2024

'I'm renting until I go on tour with Coldplay': Meet the people making the most of London's co-living boom

Convenience, co-habiting with strangers and compact rooms — is co-living the answer to the capital’s spiralling rental crisis?

Evening Standard · Jun 27, 2024

Praful Nargund: Jeremy Corbyn was wrong to say anti-semitism in Labour was overstated

The young politician and private health care entrepreneur has his work cut out taking on ex-Labour leader Corbyn in the marginal Islington North. Robbie Griffiths meets him

Evening Standard · Jun 26, 2024