Evading Standards spoof newspaper

Evading Standards was a spoof version of London's right wing Evening Standard, distributed free to commuters on at least two occasions in the 1990s.

Other spoofs from this time include:

Maybe (Mayday 2000 spoof of free Metro newspaper)
Financial Crimes (Spoof of The Financial Times produced for the international day of action against the IMF and World Bank on September 26, 2000)
The Spun (spoof of The Sun, Autumn 2001)
Hate Mail (Mayday 2002 spoof of The Daily Mail)

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Evading Standards spoof newspaper 1997

A fake version of the Evening Standard newspaper with the headline "General Election Cancelled"

Evading Standards was an anti-capitalist newspaper designed to look like London's right wing Evening Standard. This is the 2nd version of this issue, distributed free to commuters on the Friday before the UK General Election.

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Reclaim The Streets

The first version of this issue was intended for distribution on the evening before the March For Social Justice on April 12th. 20,000 copies of that version were impounded by the cops at the Piccadilly distribution point.

Three members of Reclaim The Streets were arrested and charged with incitement to cause affray and highway obstruction. As an after thought the next day, they were also charged with breach of copyright on the Evening Standard logo and a Metropolitan Police logo changed to Multinational Police for a spoof advert on the back page.