ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: Tragedy, joy and stolen bikes …it’s all going off next door 

Signing up with the app Nextdoor was very unlike me. I don’t remember why I did it in the first place but no doubt it had something to do with my permanent search for an electrician or that elusive but transformative handyman. It certainly wasn’t because I was particularly gripped by what my neighbours were up … Read more

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: I know the efforts aides made to make Meghan welcome. She didn’t want their help 

Before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex married, a professional creative, well used to the intricacies and diplomacy involved in working with Royal households, was interviewed for a role by Meghan.  A mutual friend ran into the candidate immediately after the interview and asked excitedly how the experience had been.  The reply did not sound … Read more

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: My new best lockdown pal is Alison Roman the carefree cook from Los Angeles 

My new best lockdown pal is Alison Roman the carefree cook from Los Angeles, writes ALEXANDRA SHULMAN (pictured) My new lockdown friend is an American chef and social-media star called Alison Roman. If our sultry, curvaceous Nigella is the Elizabeth Taylor of the culinary scene, Los Angeles-born Alison, 35, is the Taylor Swift. With her jaunty … Read more

Now pull on those big-boy pants – and get that jab, writes ALEXANDRA SHULMAN 

Recently, I’ve felt my life measured out in emptying coffee grounds from the day before’s pot. What’s going on today? Ah yes, the coffee pot needs cleaning out. Again. It’s the dead hand of repetition that has floored me in Lockdown 2, the inability to shake things up and go out and find something new. And … Read more

Alexandra Shulman reveals she didn’t wear a bra for 20 years and still ‘resents’ them now

Alexandra Shulman CBE has revealed she didn’t wear a bra for 20 years – and still resents them now. The ex-British Vogue editor-in-chief, 62, also admitted she has no idea how often she’s meant to wash the undergarment. Appearing on Susannah Constantine’s My Wardrobe Malfunction podcast, the London-born journalist said her vehement dislike of bras is … Read more

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: Our children at college need care – not cages 

What a horrible time to be a university student. Fenced in at Manchester, banned from leaving the precincts at Cambridge, and all the others deprived, like the rest of us, of essential human connections under the draconian shadow of Covid. Although university years are often held up as golden and glorious – a time for … Read more

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: You know it’s bad when even the celebrities disappear 

During the first lockdown, you couldn’t avoid them popping up all over the place, spreading ‘inspirational’ phrases like butter and showing off their fashionable displays of houseplants. But this time around, where are the celebrities? Apart from Lily James – to whom huge thanks for providing delicious gossip fodder with that jaunt on a scooter in … Read more

Anne Hathaway reveals second date with husband Adam Shulman was at Drew Barrymore’s Halloween party

Anne Hathaway celebrated her eighth wedding anniversary last month with husband Adam Shulman. And the Academy Award winner recently gave a glimpse at their love story, during a chat with pal Drew Barrymore. She revealed her second date with the father of her children was at Barrymore’s Halloween party, as she made a remote appearance … Read more

Why we should all stop talking about the menopause writes ALEXANDRA SHULMAN 

Here’s an undeniable fact. Over recent years I have aged.  I have more obvious grey hairs, need to drag an inconvenient array of different spectacles around and have definitely gathered an unfortunate softness around the jowls. Oh… and I went through the menopause. Now bear with me on that last item because I wouldn’t normally … Read more

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: The last thing women need is a self-help guru in a cream jump suit 

Adele looked blooming in the recent photo she released of herself after losing 7st.  Pity she followed it up by paying tribute to Untamed, by American life coach Glennon Doyle.  Oh no! Not another boost to the overinflated and potentially harmful self-help industry that dominates the publishing lists, our Instagram feeds and even our T-shirts. … Read more