Alexandra Jones
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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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.
The Queen and Prince Philip on their wedding day in 1947
The happy couple celebrated with a 9ft wedding cake, alongside 2,000 guests
So, would you spend £10,000 on a psychedelic retreat?
Psychedelic tourism is experiencing a boom with retreats around the world offering to help us reset our mental health and realign with our higher purpose — for a price. But are they effective or even safe?
Friends are expensive so I’m ‘quiet quitting’ my social life
Bills are mounting, says Alexandra Jones, which is why she’s opting out of fun this winter, one limp shrug emoji at a time
Are you ready for a sex-positive festival?
The hedonist weekender is back after five years, with a new focus: sex! But is an orgy at a festival ever a good idea, asks Alexandra Jones
Jessie Burton: ‘Art or appropriation? It depends how it’s done...’
She’s the bestselling author who has never shied away from writing characters with lives very different to her own — but that’s just the job of an author, right? As debate over who gets to tell which stories rages, she speaks to Alexandra Jones about sensitivity readers, cancel culture and knowing when to stay quiet
Johnny Depp’s victory lap is rubbing salt in the $15m wound
A £50,000 curry and a visit a Kent wildlife sanctuary — all to refuel the social media fire which has laid waste his ex-wife’s life? Alexandra Jones reports
Where London’s glitterati are partying now
The sesh is back. From London to Ibiza, Alexandra Jones has a guide to where the international jet-set are dancing until dawn
Sigrid: music still needs its MeToo moment
She’s had 1.3bn streams and sold 1m albums — so why do industry execs still tell Sigrid to stick to what she’s good at? Alexandra Jones meets her to talk sexism, Spotify rows and her eagerly awaited second album
The rise of femcels — meet the women who refuse to have sex
More Gen Z-ers are identifying as female involuntary celibates online. Why? Alexandra Jones on the extreme face of the modern anti-sex movement
The definitive guide to London’s vibe shift (and how to survive it)
Out with self-improvement, in with the overdraft. From attitudes to fashion, seize the new mood, says Alexandra Jones
Photographer Dave Benett on partying with Paris, Kate, Naomi and Elton
Name a celebrity and Dave Benett has photographed them. As a dazzling exhibition of his work opens, he tells Alexandra Jones about life in the VIP area and the tales behind his iconic pictures
All of Us Are Dead is being hailed as the new Squid Game
So what can we glean about it from the trailer? Alexandra Jones
The rise of Gen-Z socialism
Socialism has never been more cool — so has the revolution started? Alexandra Jones investigates
What the ‘Indie Sleaze Revival’ tells us about the world we live in
The gap between trends cresting, crashing and being ironically revived is closing says Alexandra Jones