Katie Strick

Senior Feature Writer & Editor

ABOUT

Katie Strick is Senior Feature Writer & Editor at The Standard. She writes and commissions in-depth and long-lead lifestyle and news-review features covering politics, social issues and cultural analysis as well as arts, fitness, travel and lifestyle. She has interviewed everyone from Andy Murray to Hadley Freeman and her long-reads on a day in the life of an ambulance crew and the disappearance of Tatler It-girl Constance Marten have been website-topping. Her new podcast London Love Stories with Katie Strick launches soon.... MORE

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Katie Strick is Senior Feature Writer & Editor at The Standard. She writes and commissions in-depth and long-lead lifestyle and news-review features covering politics, social issues and cultural analysis as well as arts, fitness, travel and lifestyle. She has interviewed everyone from Andy Murray to Hadley Freeman and her long-reads on a day in the life of an ambulance crew and the disappearance of Tatler It-girl Constance Marten have been website-topping. Her new podcast London Love Stories with Katie Strick launches soon.

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Lifestyle
21m

The pioneering £149 fertility test for women taking over London

The UCL geneticist believes London is in the midst of a silent infertility epidemic. She tells Katie Strick why her at-home test is at the frontier of reproductive health

24 Jul 2024
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Lifestyle

America’s first gentleman? Meet Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff

His dance moves have gone viral, he wants Bradley Cooper to play him in a movie and his kids have their very own nickname for Kamala. Katie Strick on the man who could become the first gentleman to enter the White House

23 Jul 2024
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Lifestyle

Kamala Harris: the VP who could be America's first female president

The Californian prosecutor, 59, has made a career of firsts — now she has 107 days to do it again. From her activist upbringing to her hype-man husband, Katie Strick charts her career so far

22 Jul 2024
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Homes & Property

Rentsmart: the new London startup using AI to find your next home

Most customers are found a new home in an average of 12 days, without having to make a single phone call

22 Jul 2024
<p>Emma Barnett with husband Jeremy Weil photographed in Brockwell Park with their new colouring book project</p>
Lifestyle

BBC star Emma Barnett on her unlikely new side-hustle

The esteemed broadcaster might be the Today Programme’s latest recruit, but that’s not the only new project keeping her busy. She and her husband tell Katie Strick about their mission to colour the capital

16 Jul 2024
<p>Katie Strick accompanies prison officer Jenny Warren at HMP Pentonville in north London</p>
Lifestyle

Rats, overcrowding and riot warnings — my day inside a London jail

Britain’s prisons are “on the precipice of failure”, with warnings that jails could run out of space within days. As Keir Starmer announces special measures to fix the crisis, Katie Strick spends a day on the frontline

12 Jul 2024
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Travel

Club Med Magna Marbella: a Spanish sporting paradise for padel fans

The four-star resort boasts six high-spec padel courts and a luxe Cinq Mondes spa for soaking those aching muscles afterwards. Katie Strick checks in

6 Jul 2024
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Lifestyle

Victoria Starmer: Britain's 'reluctant' new first lady

Sir Keir Starmer’s wife of 17 years has been largely absent from the campaign trial and isn’t at all keen on moving into No10. From her political roots to their unlikely meeting, Katie Strick charts the life of the PM’s fiercely private other half

5 Jul 2024
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Travel

El Fuerte, Marbella: old-world glamour redefining the Costa del Sol

The five-star hotel is the latest in a string of elegant new properties helping to redefine the Golden Mile’s Brits-abroad stereotype thanks to a £30m makeover. Katie Strick checks in

1 Jul 2024
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Travel

Monastero Santa Rosa: tranquillity in the middle of the Amalfi Coast

The 17th-century-monastery-turned-luxury hotel consistently ranks among the best hotels in Italy — and indeed the world. Katie Strick checks in

30 Jun 2024
<p>Sustainable choice: the Littlewine club </p>
Food + Drink

15 of the best wine subscription boxes

Team ES round up the vino you can get delivered straight to your door for summer 2024

21 Jun 2024
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Celebrity

10 juiciest revelations from Tom Bower's explosive Beckham book

Tom Bower has skewered everyone from Boris to the royals — now he’s turned his lens on Posh and Becks. So how juicy is it really? Katie Strick has the download

19 Jun 2024
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Lifestyle

How Holly Valance went from teen soap star to darling of the far-right

The former singer and Neighbours star has become an unlikely ally to Nigel Farage and Donald Trump in recent years. Emma Loffhagen and Katie Strick chart the singer’s surprising political trajectory

12 Jun 2024
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Lifestyle

Trump's London inner circle: from Nigel Farage to Holly Valance

Nigel Farage, Woody Johnson and Holly Valance are among those expected to attend a glitzy Trump fundraiser in London tonight — so who else has made it into the former POTUS’ UK power base? Katie Strick reports

12 Jun 2024
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Lifestyle

Michael Mosley's best quotes, from diet tricks to his father's death

As tributes pour in for Britain’s most popular TV doctor, Katie Strick picks the highlights from his 25-year broadcast career

10 Jun 2024
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UK

Michael Mosley: Doctor pushed his body to extreme lengths for science

The 67-year-old broadcaster went missing in Greece on Wednesday. From pioneering the 5:2 diet to injecting himself with tapeworms, Katie Strick and Naomi Clarke on how he became Britain’s most famous medic

7 Jun 2024
<p>Katie Strick tries Friday Night Lights, a new running club billed as London’s healthiest night out </p>
Lifestyle

Sound systems and singles nights — how running clubs got cool

From high-octane nights out to the new 5k for singles, London’s latest running clubs are all about chasing highs over PBs. Katie Strick reports

5 Jun 2024
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Fashion

Inside Shein, from 'sinister surveillance' to its mystery founder

As ministers woo the Chinese fashion brand to make the most contentious London stock market listing in recent years, Katie Strick reports on how the hyper-fast clothing megalith went stratospheric

5 Jun 2024
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Lifestyle

The truth about Nigel Farage's very complicated love life

Insiders say the former UKIP leader’s French partner Laure Ferrari dreams of a life with him in Westminster and may even be his secret weapon in this summer’s general election — so who is she and how did he manage to keep her a secret for so long? Katie Strick reports

4 Jun 2024
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Lifestyle

Stormy Daniels: the porn star who took down Donald Trump

Trump just became the first American president to be convicted of a crime in a historic trial over ‘hush money’ he allegedly paid to Daniels in 2016. So how did the fierce former stripper come to be the unlikely thorn in the former POTUS’ side? Katie Strick reports

31 May 2024