Alexandra Jones

Nov 19, 2024 | standard.co.uk | Alexandra Jones

This interview was originally published in January 2023“From the ages of 23 to 27, I couldn’t tell you what I did, other than take drugs and party.” Author and development coach Roxie Nafousi is reflecting on how her life has transformed in just a few years. “I hit my lowest point at about 28.

Mar 19, 2024 | standard.co.uk | Alexandra Jones

Sam Altman isn’t ordinarily high on the list of men with the power to derail my love life (he is, after all, a man who ate so few vegetables while building his first start-up that he contracted scurvy) but recently my relationship was brought to its knees by Altman. Or rather by ChatGPT, the large language model which Altman’s company, OpenAI, has developed and which my boyfriend has (without my knowledge and against my will) been using to generate names for our child.

Mar 7, 2024 | standard.co.uk | Alexandra Jones |Robbie Griffiths

Emma Barnett on why the very cells of women’s bodies are not yet recognised fully within the medical profession. Baroness Helena Kennedy on why the law is still man-made, despite progress. Cathy Newman, Charlotte Tilbury and Dame Sally Coates on why society still suffers from a gender-confidence gap and what can be done about it.

Mar 7, 2024 | standard.co.uk | Alexandra Jones

Saturday afternoon at an immaculately styled location house in Turnpike Lane and Cara Delevigne is watching RuPaul’s Drag Race on her phone. Barefaced, folded into a make-up chair, dressed in a black tracksuit that swamps her petite frame, she looks about a decade younger than her 31 years. The model-turned-actress smiles hello just as the hairstylist blasts her with a dryer.

Mar 3, 2024 | standard.co.uk | Alexandra Jones

Amidst the outpouring of grief over the death of 33-year-old Sarah Everard — murdered in 2021 by off duty police officer Wayne Couzens — a sense of momentum began to build. Vigils, demonstrations and wipe-out media coverage — there was a sense that time to address systemic misogyny within our police forces (misogyny which had, for far too long, been written off as a case of ‘just a few bad apples’), as well as the wider societal issue of violence against women and girls, was finally here.