My brave parents made the ultimate sacrifice
Hermann Hirschberger
Evening Standard
By David Cohen
20 November 2008
HERMANN Hirschberger holds up a 70-year-old photograph of himself as a handsome 12-year-old boy and says: "This is what I…
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My assassins have not heard the last of me
Ray Lewis
Evening Standard
By David Cohen
18 November 2008
RAY Lewis, the man hailed as Boris Johnson's guru in the war against knife crime, today speaks for the first…
Ticking boxes and filling in forms is just no way to be a social worker
Pauline Bradley
Evening Standard
By David Cohen
13 November 2008
When Pauline Bradley, a former Haringey social worker, heard about the horrific case of Baby P, she buried her head…
It is not about the money
Amanda Staveley
Evening Standard
By Chris Blackhurst
5 November 2008
OVER a cup of coffee at a banker's house in West London almost two weeks ago, an ex-international athlete and…
Decline and fall of a master of the universe
Gary Tanaka
Evening Standard
By Chris Blackhurst
4 November 2008
EVERY morning this week, a frail 65-year-old Japanese businessman has left an apartment on East 79th Street in Manhattan's Upper…
I pray every day there is not another teen killing
Kit Malthouse
Evening Standard
By David Cohen
3 November 2008
As Boris Johnson announces his radical new anti-knife crime initiative today, the question as to who will help to make…
The beginning of the end says the City’s top player
Michael Spencer
Evening Standard
By Chris Blackhurst
9 October 2008
MICHAEL SPENCER is beaming. “I believe we are now seeing the beginning of the end of the credit crisis,” he…
Dealmaking Influential who won’t take no for an answer
Matthew Key
Evening Standard
By Chris Blackhurst
8 October 2008
When we come to deliberate the candidates for the Evening Standard's Influentials — the 1000 people who most influence the…
I was shot three times by racist for wearing this Obama shirt
Dube Egwuatu
Evening Standard
By Danny Brierley
7 October 2008
A man told today how he was shot three times in the street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt. Dube…
‘The It Bag is dead: the whole thing was just getting revolting'
Anya Hindmarch
Evening Standard
6 October 2008
If ever a fashion accessory came to define the conspicuous over-consumption of the mid-Noughties, it was the luxury designer handbag.…
And now for the real maestro
Donatella Flick
Evening Standard
1 October 2008
“You know,” confides Donatella Flick, patron, philanthropist and glamorous enigma, “this is the room where Churchill died. Right there.” She…
The believer
Zoe Heller
Evening Standard
29 September 2008
Zoe Heller is telling me about her old friend, David Miliband. He may be Labour's prime minister-in-waiting, but for Heller…
'I plunged into the cesspool of celebrity as an act of rebellion'
Toby Young
Evening Standard
By Liz Hoggard
26 September 2008
Someone is shooting at Toby Young. Every minute there is an almighty "thwack" at the window of his shed-office. "It's…
Forties screen star
Joanna Hogg
Evening Standard
By Nick Roddick
22 September 2008
All of a sudden, British film has a new master. The debut feature of Joanna Hogg, 47, Unrelated, was released…
Philip Seymour Hoffman and his band
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Evening Standard
By Nick Curtis
18 September 2008
Breakfast time in a Covent Garden hotel. Philip Seymour Hoffman is demolishing a bowl of cornflakes and complaining that the…
