Dylan Jones

1 week ago | standard.co.uk | Dylan Jones

MusicHe’s the unofficial, in-your-face voice of a generation of disaffected youth — but his authenticity has been questioned. Dylan Jones meets Yungblud to dig a little deeper and discovers a genuine starDylan Jones1 minute agoI thought Yungblud was going to be exhausting. Having watched him in action on one of Louis Theroux’s programmes, I had half expected to meet Rik from The Young Ones or the weird brother from Wedding Crashers.

1 week ago | standard.co.uk | Dylan Jones

MusicRobbie Williams never went away, but he’s back with, yes, an art show — and wildly candid tales of his days at the Groucho, surviving the 1990s and his desperation for affirmation Dylan Jones1 minute agoThe first time I met Robbie Williams I couldn’t get rid of him. It was 1998, I was leaving a big job, and someone was throwing a dinner for me in one of the upstairs rooms in The Groucho Club, the private members’ club in Soho.

2 weeks ago | standard.co.uk | Dylan Jones

PoliticsKemi Badenoch believes she is the antidote to the existential crisis plaguing the Tories. But can she convince her party — and the country — she can be Prime Minister? Dylan Jones1 minute ago“I don’t scare easy,” 45-year-old, Wimbledon-born Kemi Badenoch (full name Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch) said to me in the back of her car on her way to Kent on Tuesday, to lend support to all the Conservative candidates fighting for survival in the local elections on May 1. “I’m tough.

3 weeks ago | standard.co.uk | Dylan Jones

In the third series of The White Lotus, Jason Isaac’s shifty Timothy Ratliff says that people move to Thailand either because they’re looking for something or running from something. Goldie, who in the past 30 years has become something of an alt National Treasure here in the UK, moved to Thailand 15 years ago, and he did it for a very particular reason, initially to retire. “I came here to do nothing as I’d had enough,” he says.

1 month ago | standard.co.uk | Dylan Jones

MusicThe superstar musician is in London for — count them — 10 nights at the O2. He speaks exclusively to Dylan JonesDylan Jones1 minute ago“What’s the matter with you?” Usher looks at me as though I have just emerged the worse for wear from a fist fight in one of the downtown bars in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee.