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Alexei Navalny practically predicted this. Russia’s foremost opposition leader and fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, who was serving a 19-year prison sentence on a range of charges he called politically motivated, said in a 2022 documentary that “if they decide to kill me, it means that we are incredibly strong”.

Around 500 protesters, some dressed as skeletons and t-rexes declared “Ulez is dead” at an event in Biggin Hill

As workers prepared to walkout at 5pm, one told the Standard they have to make four deliveries an hour to earn minimum wage

The campaign by VCCP London and Wavemaker has won a competition launched by the Standard and Outernet London

The Beigel Shop on Brick Lane has been in business for more than 150 years

Petitions calling for family visa changes to be scrapped are being presented to Downing Street on Valentine’s Day

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s judgement has come under fire over a delay in withdrawing his party’s support for its Rochdale by-election candidate, Azhar Ali, over remarks he made about Israel.

Legal tech firm Farewill has seen its valuation slashed by more than £50 million by one of its major shareholders, the Standard has learnt, amid growing signs European tech firms are struggling to hold on to the heady valuations they attracted during the height of the pandemic.

It is all a Jewish conspiracy, you see. Labour’s candidate for the Rochdale by-election, Azhar Ali, told a party meeting that Israel had “deliberately” allowed the October 7 massacre — in which Hamas murdered 1,200 people and took more than 240 hostage — to go ahead to give them “the…