Alex Fleming-Brown

Oct 30, 2024 | dailydrone.co.uk | Alex Fleming-Brown

By ALEX FLEMING-BROWN, writing in The SpectatorWorking on a ‘trending’ news desk is the journalistic equivalent of being a battery-farmed hen. When I was still at university, I wrote pieces for one of the most-visited clickbait news sites in the UK, which boasts 300 million followers worldwide. My brief was to pump out a 400-word article in 45 minutes, every 45 minutes, for nine hours straight.

Oct 30, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Alex Fleming-Brown

Working on a ‘trending’ news desk is the journalistic equivalent of being a battery-farmed hen. When I was still at university, I wrote pieces for one of the most-visited clickbait news sites in the UK, which boasts 300 million followers worldwide. My brief was to pump out a 400-word article in 45 minutes, every 45 minutes, for nine hours straight.

Oct 29, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | Alex Fleming-Brown

Hillary Clinton has a simple but bitter lesson to teach Donald Trump’s supporters in 2024: the best way to lose an election is to assume you’ve already won it a week before it happens. ​The MAGA movement – aiming to Make America Great Again, namely by Making Trump President Again – has never been more

Jan 30, 2024 | theface.com | Alex Fleming-Brown

Suits are back, boys. They’ve been cruising down the runways, traipsing the streets of Soho, adopted by The Dare and trailing around car boots. Young men are formally stepping into the year. Let’s think of it as the natural style successor to last year’s ​“blokecore” trend.

Oct 16, 2023 | the-fence.com | Jo Hamya |Joe Bishop |Patrick Galbraith |Alex Fleming-Brown

Some conversations, not always with friends. At certain kinds of parties I have stopped going to, I used to find myself at the mercy of ugly conversations about beautiful women. There was never enough bad wine to hand to make those negotiations tolerable. They arose chiefly through the sustained influx of models, actresses and pop starlets who have re-marketed themselves as avid readers of highbrow literary works. Perhaps you have seen the media fodder that accompanies the phenomenon.