Alexandra Jones

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Alexandra Jones is Culture & Features Executive Editor for The Standard. Alexandra writes and commissions in-depth and long-lead news review features. From books, exhibitions and nightlife to health & wellbeing or tech, she focuses on the pop culture moments that get Londoners talking. She has been nominated for multiple industry awards, including PPA Writer of the Year and has previously written for The Guardian, Vogue and Elle UK. ... MORE

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Alexandra Jones is Culture & Features Executive Editor for The Standard. Alexandra writes and commissions in-depth and long-lead news review features. From books, exhibitions and nightlife to health & wellbeing or tech, she focuses on the pop culture moments that get Londoners talking. She has been nominated for multiple industry awards, including PPA Writer of the Year and has previously written for The Guardian, Vogue and Elle UK.

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Lifestyle

The F***-it List: things to avoid doing before you die

Bucket list? Nah, more important are the activities to swerve at all costs, as Alexandra Jones and the Evening Standard team elucidate

5 Dec 2023
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Lifestyle

'I grew up on an estate — the class prejudice in Saltburn repelled me'

Emerald Fennell’s new film is a sign that we are in desperate need of new voices, says Alexandra Jones

22 Nov 2023
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Theatre

Self Esteem: 'Men are terrified of me'

As she makes her West End debut in Cabaret, pop icon Rebecca Lucy Taylor talks patriarchy, fascism and theatre with Alexandra Jones

9 Nov 2023
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Wellness

'I crowdfunded my egg freezing': stories from the fertility frontlines

Despite the many barriers to parenthood that Londoners face, we are also tenacious and resilient to a fault. Alexandra Jones meets four people who're transforming the world of fertility in smaller and grander ways

3 Nov 2023
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Wellness

The Standard Fertility Survey: how children became a luxury good

A third of people say they're feeling pressured to remain childfree because of the cost of living. Alexandra Jones delves into The Standard's first fertility survey in partnership with Peanut

3 Nov 2023
<p>This autumn we're rejecting the homogenised approach to fitness that we’ve been fed for so long — harder, faster, twice a day — and instead moving like a Fat Bear. </p>
Wellness

Why it's time to embrace Fat Bear winter

An anti-wellness backlash has begun, says Alexandra Jones. As the weather turns, she's embracing a Fat Bear ethos

23 Oct 2023
Lifestyle

JW Anderson: ‘Someone like McQueen could not exist in today’s culture’

Jonathan Anderson may be one of the world’s most remarkable fashion designers but his first love is art. Ahead of his new London exhibition, he tells Alexandra Jones why cancel culture scares him more than the cost of living crisis

22 Sept 2023
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Lifestyle

Russell Brand reminds us that no woman escaped the Noughties unscathed

Brand was operating within the parameters of a time where women and girls were under attack, 24/7, body and soul, says Alexandra Jones

21 Sept 2023
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Lifestyle

Naomi Klein is worried about her ‘Doppelganger’? Try being me

Our writer details what it’s like having the same name as a much worse conspiracy theorist than Naomi Wolf

12 Sept 2023
Lifestyle

Is summer 2023 giving you the ick?

From ‘status olives’ to Barbie quotes and silver stetsons, these cliches have us all yearning for a vibe shift says Alexandra Jones

24 Aug 2023
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Lifestyle

El Palace Barcelona — spectacular decadence overlooking the city

It’s the place for Gatsby-esque high glamour in the Spanish city, says Alexandra Jones

16 Aug 2023
Comment

The London Question: Is Hackney the new Clapham?

The ‘artsy’ set has moved on and there’s more chance of being mown down by a Bugaboo than encountering a studio squat party

8 Aug 2023
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Lifestyle

First look: boutique seaside bolthole Margate House

A chic seaside stay that’ll make you yearn for a different kind of life, says Alexandra Jones

3 Aug 2023
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Lifestyle

Soneva — the ultra-luxe Maldives resort the A-list love

Soneva has been the go-to brand for luxury resorts for almost two decades. Alexandra Jones visits to find out why the likes of the Biebers and Gwyneth Paltrow go back year after year

1 Aug 2023
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Lifestyle

Holly Humberstone: ‘I feel like it’s a race to be successful’

With a Brit award and millions of streams to her name already, singer-songwriter Holly Humberstone is on her way to stratospheric success. Ahead of the release of her new single, she tells Alexandra Jones about learning to get out of her head and enjoy the ride

28 Jul 2023
Lifestyle

Caroline Calloway: ‘I am afraid Cambridge will take my degree back’

The internet sensation scammed her way into the British academic institution — then built a career as an ‘It girl’ off her life there. With the publication of her searing new memoir, she tells Alexandra Jones why she’s leaving all artifice behind

21 Jul 2023
<p>Alexandra Jones says the audacity of catcalling sends “an electric prickle of rage up my spine"</p>
Lifestyle

‘I’ve been catcalled and groped more times than I can count’

A Met Police chief says that undercover patrol units targeting catcallers are likely to be rolled out across London. About time, says Alexandra Jones

14 Jul 2023