Kara Kennedy

Eric and Don Jr. launch ‘Trump Mobile’

17 June 2025 3:51 am

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

6 June 2025 7:00 pm

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

31 May 2025 3:45 am

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

20 May 2025 6:55 pm

On the ground floor of Georgetown Park, Donald Trump Jr. is putting the finishing touches on his invitation-only club, the…

The Ivanka Harvest

16 May 2025 6:46 pm

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

3 May 2025 7:54 pm

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?

15 April 2025 3:46 am

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?

4 April 2025 7:15 pm

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

8 February 2025 9:00 am

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

29 January 2025 8:43 pm

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

18 January 2025 9:00 am

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

4 May 2024 9:00 am

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

1 July 2023 12:00 am

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

24 June 2023 5:11 am

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

22 June 2023 6:00 pm

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

18 June 2023 10:05 pm

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?

19 May 2023 11:07 pm

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

17 May 2023 3:37 am

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

15 April 2023 3:51 pm

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?

11 April 2023 10:25 pm

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

7 April 2023 12:07 am

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

4 April 2023 1:36 am

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?

31 March 2023 3:29 am

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

25 March 2023 9:00 am

What I learned growing up in the murder capital of Wales

The new war on weight

2 March 2023 2:21 pm

We’re getting fatter. We even have a whole day dedicated to it now, World Obesity Day. We are reminded about…