Such a shame. Loved using the printed Evening Standard to pad my moving boxes when I moved houses a few times. Guess I’ll have to source my future packing material some other way.
…not yet they haven’t. They go to the printers between 11am and 12pm FYI.
Or rather, they did…!
Thank god. On the downside, I won’t be able to pick up free toilet paper as easily anymore, guess the Metro will be replacing it 🤣
The puzzle section was good, sigh.
Russian owned Rag anyway
Years ago, back in the 80s, it wasn’t such a shit rag as it has since become. It was, I think, 20p and the sellers were really part of the furniture on street corners, outside tube stations and elsewhere yelling unintelligible gibberish in an attempt to sell more papers. A lot like this [sketch ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0JK1aAnlhE&ab_channel=DocAspade). “Ning Star” “EvninStannit”. There was one bloke at Stamford Hill that was so aggressive people used to buy papers out of fear!
It’s a shame if you remember when it was paid for and good, before the Internet enshitified journalism.
Picking it up from a man on a street corner to read on the way home was always a minor treat.
horrible Tory rag, good riddance
Awful paper, but there is a gap in the market for a London daily that *actually covers* real London news rather than high society nonsense. City hall and local councils make so many decisions with almost no media coverage. Would be unthinkable in a big American city.
They have done some fantastic work recently on the Single Justice Procedures but I don’t think too many will shed a tear about this, which says a lot about what was once a London icon.
I used to pick up the free version but they had an obsequious hagiography of a corrupt Kazakh oligarch(ina) who was probably shagging The Bearded Oligarch who owns it and I never picked it up again.
All of the ‘awful paper’ ‘Tory rag’ ‘good riddance’ and other such comments are very much recentism. Back in the 80s, 90s and very early 00s (basically before internet news & social media took off) it was a great paper, at around 4pm daily we would send an office junior out to secure a few copies to have a glance at for anything that affected our business and then read a copy in full on the train home. The paper & ink had a slightly unpleasant aroma I can still smell to this day too.
Unfortunately by mid 00s it was a shadow of its former self, and the final nail in the coffin was Lebedev purchasing the paper in 2009.
What’s the best place for London news, do people think?
Before I moved to London you could get on a train heading further north and read a Londoner’s left over Standard. It was like reading about the future with zero stories about rugby league or pies.
Was good back in the day when it was paid for and serious, double spread reviews from Brian Sewell, good business section etc etc
I saw someone open it up, sneeze into it and put it on the seat when they left.
Next person gets on, picks that same paper up, licks their fingers to flip through the pages.
Never touched another one ever again. Good riddance for many reasons.
The irony of the number of people here who haven’t read the article. Which was presumably why they are doing thia
It’s still existing, just not going to be daily.
How are we supposed to know which glamorous corporate events Cara Delevingne has been seen at now?
Finally…. It was a shitty Tory rag puffed up with high society gossip, responsible for giving many Londoners a delusional take on reality.
The classifieds are worth a mention too..
It was also the way you used to find a room for rent. That was mental. You’d phone a number get an address and a time. You’d turn up with a bunch of other people, get told the rent, plus four weeks in advance and four weeks deposit, someone always paid first and everyone else got told to clear off.
Therefore the Evening Standard was a reliable source to find a shitty landlord or a bad tenancy.
It was also where you could find dodgy jobs. Tons and tons of telesales jobs, offering a daily or weekly salary, and then you’d turn up and get told the job was commission only and the advertised rates were what you *could* make if you were good. Often the job was based in one of those rented offices somewhere on Oxford Street.
It was just as reliable as Loot as a source for dodgy jobs.
Nice. Good to have less litter on trains and busses.
I used to love reading Victor Lewis Smith’s TV review column in the 90s
It was down to a pamphlet anyway, it was always a bit of a rag but in recent years under Osborne/The Kremlin it was pure shit.
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Such a shame. Loved using the printed Evening Standard to pad my moving boxes when I moved houses a few times. Guess I’ll have to source my future packing material some other way.
…not yet they haven’t. They go to the printers between 11am and 12pm FYI.
Or rather, they did…!
Thank god. On the downside, I won’t be able to pick up free toilet paper as easily anymore, guess the Metro will be replacing it 🤣
The puzzle section was good, sigh.
Russian owned Rag anyway
Years ago, back in the 80s, it wasn’t such a shit rag as it has since become. It was, I think, 20p and the sellers were really part of the furniture on street corners, outside tube stations and elsewhere yelling unintelligible gibberish in an attempt to sell more papers. A lot like this [sketch ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0JK1aAnlhE&ab_channel=DocAspade). “Ning Star” “EvninStannit”. There was one bloke at Stamford Hill that was so aggressive people used to buy papers out of fear!
It’s a shame if you remember when it was paid for and good, before the Internet enshitified journalism.
Picking it up from a man on a street corner to read on the way home was always a minor treat.
horrible Tory rag, good riddance
Awful paper, but there is a gap in the market for a London daily that *actually covers* real London news rather than high society nonsense. City hall and local councils make so many decisions with almost no media coverage. Would be unthinkable in a big American city.
They have done some fantastic work recently on the Single Justice Procedures but I don’t think too many will shed a tear about this, which says a lot about what was once a London icon.
I used to pick up the free version but they had an obsequious hagiography of a corrupt Kazakh oligarch(ina) who was probably shagging The Bearded Oligarch who owns it and I never picked it up again.
All of the ‘awful paper’ ‘Tory rag’ ‘good riddance’ and other such comments are very much recentism. Back in the 80s, 90s and very early 00s (basically before internet news & social media took off) it was a great paper, at around 4pm daily we would send an office junior out to secure a few copies to have a glance at for anything that affected our business and then read a copy in full on the train home. The paper & ink had a slightly unpleasant aroma I can still smell to this day too.
Unfortunately by mid 00s it was a shadow of its former self, and the final nail in the coffin was Lebedev purchasing the paper in 2009.
What’s the best place for London news, do people think?
Before I moved to London you could get on a train heading further north and read a Londoner’s left over Standard. It was like reading about the future with zero stories about rugby league or pies.
Was good back in the day when it was paid for and serious, double spread reviews from Brian Sewell, good business section etc etc
I saw someone open it up, sneeze into it and put it on the seat when they left.
Next person gets on, picks that same paper up, licks their fingers to flip through the pages.
Never touched another one ever again. Good riddance for many reasons.
The irony of the number of people here who haven’t read the article. Which was presumably why they are doing thia
It’s still existing, just not going to be daily.
How are we supposed to know which glamorous corporate events Cara Delevingne has been seen at now?
Finally…. It was a shitty Tory rag puffed up with high society gossip, responsible for giving many Londoners a delusional take on reality.
The classifieds are worth a mention too..
It was also the way you used to find a room for rent. That was mental. You’d phone a number get an address and a time. You’d turn up with a bunch of other people, get told the rent, plus four weeks in advance and four weeks deposit, someone always paid first and everyone else got told to clear off.
Therefore the Evening Standard was a reliable source to find a shitty landlord or a bad tenancy.
It was also where you could find dodgy jobs. Tons and tons of telesales jobs, offering a daily or weekly salary, and then you’d turn up and get told the job was commission only and the advertised rates were what you *could* make if you were good. Often the job was based in one of those rented offices somewhere on Oxford Street.
It was just as reliable as Loot as a source for dodgy jobs.
Nice. Good to have less litter on trains and busses.
I used to love reading Victor Lewis Smith’s TV review column in the 90s
It was down to a pamphlet anyway, it was always a bit of a rag but in recent years under Osborne/The Kremlin it was pure shit.