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‘We introduced avocado to the high street!’ How Pret conquered London – and began eyeing the rest of the world

The sandwich chain now has 274 branches in the capital. How did it grow so huge – and can anything stop it getting even bigger?

At 93-95 Victoria Street, Westminster, a blue plaque marks a piece of Lo…

Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot

It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissent

The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Sta…

British activist in solitary confinement in India despite acquittal, family say

Brother of Jagtar Singh Johal claims he is being ‘mentally tortured’ through unwarranted detention

The British Sikh activist Jagtar Singh Johal, detained for seven years in an Indian jail, has been pl…

37 days ago

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves dodge pain of energy and water hikes thanks to 'cap' on bills at Downing Street flats... as they enjoy Westminster's low council tax

Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves only pay a taxable benefit on running costs at the grace-and-favour apartments in Downing Street .

41 days ago

QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: At last, she speaks! So that's what gnomic Whitehall operative Sue Gray sounds like

QUENTIN LETTS: Lady Gray of Tottenham (Lab) is better known as Sue Gray, the gnomic Whitehall operative who torpedoed Boris Johnson with her report on his lockdown birthday cake.

42 days ago

'I am on the naughty list of every major party': PETER HITCHENS tells SARAH VINE why he would never accept an honour from the 'political sludge' in Westminster on the latest episode of the Alas Vine & Hitchens podcast

PODCAST: Asked whether he would ever accept a Lordship, the best-selling author responded by saying he would not want to rub shoulders with the current 'sludge' that sits in the House. Listen now

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