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. ...
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.
Spiralling costs, low staff morale and long waiting lists but London’s medical director Chris Streather tells Alexandra Jones why he is optimistic about our health service
Spain’s plan to offer up to five days paid menstrual leave is a wake-up call to employers to finally acknowledge female pain in the workplace says Alexandra Jones
Following in the footsteps of icons like Kate Moss and Adwoa Aboah, Maya Jama is the new woman telling us how to get the London look. She sits down with Alexandra Jones
Accusations of racism, misogyny and exploitation have blighted the show. As Love Island returns for another season, former fanatic Alexandra Jones is over it
To mark the 25th anniversary this month of the iconic HBO series, Alexandra Jones reflects on the learnings — the good, the bad, the ugly — from Manhattan’s most famous and fabulous four
A hit with the locals and with its own destination speakeasy, Alexandra Jones finds the perfect hotel for a weekend of shopping ‘til you drop
It’s been years in the making — does Virgin Hotels New York mark the start of a new luxury travel empire for the British billionaire? Alexandra Jones travels to the States to find out
The star of hot new Sam Mendes play The Motive and the Cue talks fame, fraught rehearsals and theatre’s big culture shift. By Alexandra Jones
Rather than give in to the abuse and death threats hurled at him by the anti-ULEZ brigade, Mayor Sadiq Khan tells Alexandra Jones why he’s more determined than ever to clean up London’s air
It was starting to get tedious until the stakes were raised — for one Roy at least, says Alexandra Jones
Ahead of her starring role in hot new BBC drama Rain Dogs, Bafta award-winning actress Daisy May Cooper tells Alexandra Jones about scars from her childhood, why she auditioned to be a stripper and quitting social media
It was one of the most hyped openings of 2022 and throughout last summer The Standard Ibiza played host to London’s fashion crowd as they hit the Balearic island. So, how good is it really? Alexandra Jones finds out
Though interesting, the show buckles under the weight of the legal complexities it’s attempting to tease out
From challenging China to ending divisions on Europe, Shadow Foreign Secretary, David Lammy tells Alexandra Jones what UK foreign policy would look like under Labour
From small-town Irish actor to TV heart-throb and Oscar nominee, Paul Mescal tells Alexandra Jones how he’s (nearly) navigating his new-found fame
The actor is pushing sixty and rumoured to be dating the 29-year-old
A new billboard campaign is prompting Londoners to ask the big questions about psychedelics and mental health, says Alexandra Jones. Could legalisation really be on the horizon?