Alexandra Jones

ABOUT

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

ABOUT
VIEW

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

EXCLUSIVE: Maya Jama is the new face of Rimmel London

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

7 Jun 2023
Lifestyle

‘Why I’ve fallen out of love with Love Island’

Accusations of racism, misogyny and exploitation have blighted the show. As Love Island returns for another season, former fanatic Alexandra Jones is over it

5 Jun 2023
<p>Halcyon days: Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall in Sex and the City </p>
Lifestyle

For all of its obvious flaws, I still love Sex and the City

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

1 Jun 2023
Lifestyle

Inside Experimental Cocktail Club’s chic Parisienne hotel

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

24 May 2023
<p>Everdene at Virgin Hotels New York</p>
Lifestyle

Inside Richard Branson’s playful new Manhattan mega hotel

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

5 May 2023
Lifestyle

Johnny Flynn: ‘rehearsal spaces can turn toxic’

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

3 May 2023
<p>Mayor of London Sadiq Khan  </p>
Lifestyle

Sadiq Khan: “I want to be part of a generation who takes action”

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

22 Apr 2023
Lifestyle

Shiv is the unlikely saviour of Succession

It was starting to get tedious until the stakes were raised — for one Roy at least, says Alexandra Jones

20 Apr 2023
Lifestyle

Daisy May Cooper: ‘I wonder now – would I have done OnlyFans?’

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

29 Mar 2023
<p>The Standard Ibiza</p>
Lifestyle

The Standard Ibiza — does the party hotel live up to the hype?

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

16 Mar 2023
TV

Money Shot on Netflix review: this PornHub doc treads familiar ground

Though interesting, the show buckles under the weight of the legal complexities it’s attempting to tease out

11 Mar 2023
<p>David Lammy: “The truth is the tempo has gone up considerably since September…since the whole Truss economics debacle.”</p>
Lifestyle

‘Brexit? It’s time for the bitterness and rancour to end’

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

27 Feb 2023
<p>Paul Mescal for ES Magazine </p>
Lifestyle

Paul Mescal: ‘I don’t want my life to change any more than it has’

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

23 Feb 2023
Lifestyle

The Brad Pitt—Ines de Ramon age gap: how big is too big?

The actor is pushing sixty and rumoured to be dating the 29-year-old

21 Feb 2023
Lifestyle

Is it finally time to change the law around magic mushrooms?

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?

15 Feb 2023
Lifestyle

Is it only the inheritocracy who can afford to live in London now?

With the average deposit amount reaching almost £150,000, it’s beginning to feel like only the wealthy can afford to buy in London — and it’s creating a brain drain as more talented people are forced out of the capital, says Alexandra Jones

10 Feb 2023
<p>Awakn Life Sciences are opening London’s first psychedelic psychotherapy clinic</p>
Lifestyle

Inside London’s first psychedelic psychotherapy clinic

Psychedelics are being touted as a cure for depression, addiction and PTSD — but will this new industry live up to the hype? As the Australian government announces that it will legalise MDMA and magic mushrooms for medical use, Alexandra Jones visits London’s first clinic to find out whether the UK might be next

3 Feb 2023
Lifestyle

Michaela Coel: ‘I didn’t tell my mum when I turned down £1m’

She is known for making some of the best agenda-setting television of the past decade and now Michaela Coel is getting ready to mentor a new generation of filmmakers. She tells Alexandra Jones why the work should speak for itself and why legacy is more important to her than money

1 Feb 2023
TV

Pamela, a Love Story on Netflix review: Anderson in her own words

The thirst for Nineties nostalgia has returned the former Baywatch star to the limelight, and she’s not particularly thrilled about it

27 Jan 2023