Eric and Don Jr. launch ‘Trump Mobile’
Well, well, well. After a week of breathless digital countdown timers and PR emails demanding that every journalist get on…
In, sigh, defense of Meghan Markle
Here we are again, Meghan’s latest cringe-inducing social media offering: an 80-second video of her twerking in a hospital delivery…
Melania Trump is phoning it in
There’s something admirable about Melania Trump’s commitment to doing absolutely nothing. While America obsesses over her husband’s latest provocations, the…
Don Jr.’s Gold Rush
On the ground floor of Georgetown Park, Donald Trump Jr. is putting the finishing touches on his invitation-only club, the…
The Ivanka Harvest
In Bentonville, Arkansas, far from the Beltway bubble, Ivanka Trump is talking about her latest venture. Her topic isn’t politics…
The strategic ascent of Kai Trump
In the gilded corridors of Trump Tower and the manicured greens of exclusive golf courses, a new Trump is quietly…
Is Kamala Harris turning into Meghan Markle?
Somewhere atop the sun-drenched hills of coastal California, failures go to rebrand themselves, and rebrand their rebrands as “pivots.” There,…
Has King Trump lost his jester?
The most important man in the palace of King Donald Trump looks set to leave the court. According to several…
Right young things: meet the Trumpian twentysomethings taking over Washington
Washington, D.C. ‘What made you open a restaurant?’ I ask Bart Hutchins, the owner of Butterworth’s, a French-style bistro turned…
The name’s Melania, Melania Trump
In her favorite room of the White House, the Yellow Oval room, stands Melania, in a black Dolce & Gabbana…
The child-free influencers waging war on motherhood
At around five weeks into my pregnancy my phone found out about it, and from that point on I was…
Wales is facing a US-style opioid crisis
In Europe at the end of the Noughties, the problem drug was krokodil. The semi-synthetic, necrosis-causing alternative to heroin was…
At home with Jacob Rees-Mogg
Before I arrived at Gournay Court, Jacob Rees-Mogg’s seventeenth-century home in Somerset, I’d missed the main event. Beforehand, I’d asked…
In praise of megarich adventurers
There’s rich and there’s rich. There’s a number beyond which stuff starts to get boring. I’m not sure what it…
Je suis Karen
As I creep into my mid-twenties something is changing. I’m not quite young enough to be carefree, I pay my…
Jenny Boyd goes beyond the muse
The beautiful muse to great male artists is a tricky figure, omnipresent in history but a bad fit for our…
What’s the truth about Harry and Meghan’s car chase story?
Recollections may vary when it comes to Meghan and Harry’s car chase. The Sussexes’ statement this week supplied fodder for…
Courtcore: why the right outfit is as important as a good lawyer
When the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird came out in 1962, America was captivated. In part it was because of…
Prep isn’t ‘back’ — it never left
Open up any social media and type in the word “prep.” I just did it: to my horror, I was…
Did palace officials joke that Prince Harry had Stockholm syndrome?
An ‘archetype’ is a ‘universally understood term or pattern of behaviour, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned or…
Melania Trump never stood a chance
Where is Melania? This is the question on everyone’s minds after the former first lady was absent from the afterparty…
How to take an iconic mugshot
So you’re going to be arrested imminently: how do you prepare? I’ve dwelled on this question often since my arrest…
Is this the reason Harry and Meghan stepped down as working Royals?
Stepping down as working royals would ‘provide our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the…
The killer next door: growing up in the murder capital of Wales
What I learned growing up in the murder capital of Wales
The new war on weight
We’re getting fatter. We even have a whole day dedicated to it now, World Obesity Day. We are reminded about…