please empty your brain below

The only surprise there is that there is nothing on Wills and Kate which normally fills up a page or 2. The Evening Standard is effectively the Daily Mail, with the same Middle England, right-wing stance, minus the racism. I can't stand it, but do still end up reading it out of boredom on the commute back home.
I used to buy the Evening News and the Standard, and I am old enough to remember London’s other evening paper The Star. The vendors would call out
"News, Star and Standard".
I like the Standard for the crossword and other puzzles. Now it is free its even better.
I prefer the Standard to The Metro, as there seems to be more to read in the Standard especially London based items.
For a free morning paper I try to pick up the City AM. That also has a crossword, always wonder why there is no crossword in The Metro.
Come on, that's 76 pages to read, for free, every day. Some other cities don't get sh*t. Stop complaining for once.
Just wondering, dg, how much longer it took you to create today's post than to read yesterday's Standard.

As for Daily Wailery (Bob), it used to be when it was part of the Daily Mail group, - now it's owned by the Lebedevs along with The Independent and the London Live TV channel I can't detect the same political/social bias, though The Mirror it isn't.
'Substandard'
A very good paper, considering that it's free. If you wanted a better one, you had the chance to buy the paid-for Standard or (a good while back) the London Daily News.

I do think it's funny when bloggers who use new technology to effectively undercut newspapers then criticise those papers when they cut down content and go free (Time Out).

Or, indeed, moan that new technology means Tube station staff selling tickets are redundant and have to get off their bums and help passengers.
Intriguing post - a dissection of the paper without an analysis or opinion of its contents. Perhaps the foundation for tomorrow's post?
Just as well we don't have to pay for this combination of snobbery and left-wing politics.
You wouldn't *have* to pay for it even if it wasn't free, genius.

Intriguing post though. I wonder what the context is. Perhaps an experiment to see what kind of reactionary, ill-informed comments it provokes, and to observe how people project their own prejudices and shoulder-chips onto it.

Seems to be working nicely.
I can't see that DG is actually criticising the Standard as such. I see it as a wry but affectionate look at its contents. Like the way people can affectionately refer to the Grauniad or The News of the Scr*ws.

I am always amused by criticism of Metro or the Standard. Both papers are fantastic compared to the content of Australia's freebie Mx.
By the way, I haven't been able to find out if the Standard still publishes multiple editions. Is West End Final just branding now?
David,

Would we still be human if we weren't contrary? I can simultaneously feel sad that the old days of Newspaper publishing are gone but grateful that I can read the Standard online from the other side of the globe in real time.
It makes better kitty litter, rabbit hutch bedding etc. than the online version.
I was really hoping that Madeleine was still alive somewhere... Looks like maybe not.
@gt - I spotted two different headlines from two distributors metres apart outside Charing Cross station recently. I think they were still both branded West End Final, though.
Loved the story about the octopus :)
My biggest criticism of the Standard is the lack of scrutiny of the Mayor (happens to be good pals with the Standard's owner), so really it isn't doing its job of reporting thoroughly on what is happening in London.

By comparison, blogs provide a good source of information on what Boris is up to, unhindered by the agenda set at the Standard.

By contrast, the Telegraph is clearly a right-of-centre pro-Conservative newspaper but doesn't shy away from its journalistic duty to hold the current government to account.
If you discount Showbiz, Housing, Retail and Business, the Evening Standard contains relatively little local London news.
@ Bob
Hacker: Don't tell me about the press, I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; the Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; the Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and the The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?

Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.
So who else thinks the lorry carrying the advertising octopus 'broke down' exactly in the middle of Oxford Circus on porpoise to secure free publicity for its betting shop sponsor?


A list of the contents of the Evening Standard gets more comments than sex. Hmmm.
Sheeks

What do you bwant for free?

It's great for those boring trips on the tube, particulary the snail paced District Line.
What about the mandatory photo of Cara Delevingne? She's usually on page 4 or 5, but occasionally sneaks onto the front page. I was shocked when, last Tuesday, she didn't appear till page 22. I'm not sure who she is, or why she has to be in every edition of the Evening Standard, but there we go.
Agree with ActonMan

A lorry breaking down in Oxford Circus?
Carrying an octopus?
Promoting a company connected with betting?

Sheesh... what are the odds of that happening!?

(rolls eyes cynically)
Hmmm. I don't see the paper. This "p72 Advert: London Live" you refer to.
Presumably that would be something to do with that new-ish TV channel? Which, from most of what I've seen on it, is as appallingly bad as the early days of Carlton :(
Alas there was no Cara Delevingne in yesterday's Standard, nor in today's.
Ditto luxury basement extensions.
meanwhile in yesterday's Standard the is a reference by their "Royal Editor" to the Queen becoming a centurion (sic)like her mother. this isn't what I'd expect from the Standard, whatever your views about their choice of content it's usually well written.










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