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And we’re back. Founded in 1955, the Evening Standard Theatre Awards are the UK’s oldest dramatic accolades, an annual recognition by London’s newspaper of the excellence of London’s theatre. Across seven decades, the awards honoured the great and the good both on and off stage in acting, writing, musical performance,…

By tradition, the Commons does not sit before 2.30pm on a Monday, as MPs journey from their constituencies to Westminster. Jeremy Hunt did not have that kind of time.

Over 40 per cent of children in the capital living in poverty are unable to receive free school meals

Ipsos poll for the Standard reveals full scale of the damage to Tory party by Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget

Basic with Ads will launch in Australia on 3 November as the streaming service hopes to recoup its first subscriber losses in more than 10 years

The single justice procedure has attracted criticism since its inception in 2015, with fears of mistakes being made in a system dubbed “conveyor belt justice”

A Nashville social club’s owner has reached a deal to plead guilty to a campaign finance scheme alleged against him and a Tennessee senator, who has deemed the charges a “political witch hunt.”

Exclusive: Health Secretary tells Standard there will be no movement on pay increase for nurses after strike ballot

The British medic was shot dead while on a medical aid mission in August 2010

The contract with Veolia will end in 2025, prompting fears over cleanliness for the next three years

Ensuring every child has enough to eat at school is a moral imperative. It is also a benefit to wider society. A PwC study, seen exclusively by the Evening Standard and our sister paper, The Independent, finds that extending free school meals to all children in poverty in England would…