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.

Lifestyle

The demise of Sex and the City’s Chris Noth

As Mr Big he was a pop culture icon for a generation of women but multiple allegations of sexual impropriety and assault have now been levelled at the star

7 Jan 2022
<p>Joe Biden’s new dog ‘Commander’ </p>
Lifestyle

President Joe Biden’s new puppy Commander is a very good boy

The German Shepherd is the latest in a long line of White House pets which has, in the past, included a raccoon called Rebecca

21 Dec 2021
Lifestyle

Don’t sext your ex... and five other ways to survive a solo Christmas

An estimated one million people will be spending Christmas alone thanks to Omicron. Here’s Alexandra Jones’ guide to keeping your dignity (and your sanity) this lonely Yuletide

17 Dec 2021
Lifestyle

How did Allegra Stratton become the face of Tory sleaze?

She’s godmother to Rishi Sunak’s children, friends with Dominic Cummings - and last night the PM’s former press secretary became the latest unwitting face of Tory sleaze

9 Dec 2021
<p>Decks and the city: above, a night bus on Tottenham Court Road back in 1998</p>
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An ode to the great London night bus — ‘it could get feral after dark’

Taxi app cancelled on you for the seventh time in an hour? Time to join Alexandra Jones on a more eventful route home

18 Nov 2021
<p>Katie Leamon</p>
The Sustainables

Meet the Christmas card designer ditching plastic

Alexandra Jones talks to Katie Leamon about festive excess and the role of small business in driving eco-friendly practices

1 Nov 2021
Lifestyle

Why Londoners are demanding more from their employers

Londoners now expect far more from their employers than just a pay cheque. Alexandra Jones investigates the end of turning a blind eye

22 Oct 2021
Lifestyle

How Greenwich became the capital’s new design epicentre

Sixteen buildings. Eight architects. Many years in the making. Alexandra Jones explores the Design District, London’s new creative heart

18 Oct 2021
Lifestyle

Why have so many people taken up smoking during lockdown?

Taking up smoking in her 30s wasn’t part of the plan, but as Alexandra Jones found, during the past year or so, she wasn’t alone

23 Sept 2021
Lifestyle

Could investing in Bitcoin ruin your life?

Everyone’s doing it but what about the side effects? Alexandra Jones on the emotional toll of riding the crypto wave

10 Sept 2021
Lifestyle

Has the pandemic killed ambition?

So many people currently want out of their jobs that economists are calling it ‘the great resignation’. Has work ethic become a thing of the past? asks Alexandra Jones

9 Sept 2021
Lifestyle

London’s youthquake: how young Londoners have survived pandemic life

Young Londoners have had the run of the city for over a year, with parties prioritised over prospects (and who could blame them). But what happens now? Alexandra Jones joins in with nocturnal adventurers across the capital to find out

4 Aug 2021
Lifestyle

Can the Union Jack ever be cool again?

Dua Lipa’s Brits appearance might suggest so, but it’s complicated, says Alexandra Jones, as she ponders the state of the union

27 May 2021
Lifestyle

The plight of London's young working class men

The economic fallout from the pandemic has made the already-tough lives of London’s non-graduate males even harder. Alexandra Jones talks to the young men trying to battle their way through

8 Oct 2020
Lifestyle

What's behind the recent craze on cage fighting?

MMA — or cage fighting — is the world’s fastest-growing sport. With a thriving white-collar scene, Alexandra Jones finds out what drives men to get in the cage 

9 Oct 2019
Lifestyle

The millennial sex parties happening in London

Don’t be fooled by headlines that millennials have stopped having sex: they’re leading a sexual revolution right here in the capital

13 Jun 2019
Lifestyle

How hallucinogens are making an unlikely comeback

Formerly the pastime of mess heads and hippies, hallucinogens are making an unlikely comeback with otherwise clean-living Londoners. But at what cost? Alexandra Jones investigates

13 Jun 2018