Jasmine Parker

3 weeks ago | tatler.com | Jasmine Parker

All eyes will be on Katie Boulter, Emma Raducanu and Naomi Osaka as they take over the Queen’s Club next week for the return of the women’s competition for the first time in more than 50 years. Men, move aside. It may have been Jack Draper and Carlos Alcaraz dominating headlines at Roland-Garros, but now they’ll have to step onto the sidelines. Is the move overdue? Certainly. A major social coup? Absolutely. ‘It’s a huge deal,’ says tournament director and former British No. 1 Laura Robson.

4 weeks ago | tatler.com | Jasmine Parker

‘Raffles Hotel stands for all the fables of the exotic East,’ exclaimed the great playwright W Somerset Maugham of that Beach Road haven so many years ago. Its corridors have been paced by Charlie Chaplin and Elizabeth Taylor; the bar propped up by Rudyard Kipling dreaming up The Jungle Book. And of all the home-grown brands so beloved by their countries of provenance, is there any more synonymous with its national identity than Raffles Singapore?

2 months ago | tatler.com | Jasmine Parker

Can frozen yoghurt ever be worth £36? That’s the philosophical question I’m grappling with tonight, as I make my way from Tatler HQ to Mayfair’s Dover Street for dinner at the glittering Dubai/Monaco-import Gaia. This may just be the crown jewel of London’s Instagrammable restaurants, with its opulent seafood display and tableside lobster pasta. But I’m not here for the signature sea bream carpaccio or black truffle pasta.

2 months ago | tatler.com | Jasmine Parker

Parker Posey’s Southern accent may be the breakout star of this season of The White Lotus, but the most famous member of the cast is not Posey, nor Aimee Lou Wood’s teeth, nor nepo baby Patrick Schwarzenegger. It is, in fact, the humble Mook: real-name Lisa, with a not-so-humble 105 million followers on Instagram. She is, in the words of fellow cast member Jason Isaacs, ‘one of the most famous people in the entire world… more famous than Jesus and Elvis’.

2 months ago | yourvalley.net | Jasmine Parker

Jasmine Parker Submitted photo By Jasmine Parker | Waymo Six years ago, I never imagined I would find myself in the tech world — my background was in marketing. Then, an opportunity came along that I couldn’t pass up. I was hired as a temporary contractor to help test, launch and support the world's most advanced autonomous vehicle technology right here in the Valley. It was then known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project. Today, the world knows it as Waymo. Initially, it was a one-year...