Katie Strick

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Katie Strick writes 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.

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Katie Strick writes 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.

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Will this app keep me safe or just help police identify my body?

Will new app Safest Way really solve violence against women, asks Katie Strick

15 Jun 2026
Lifestyle

Inside the insanely luxurious oligarch super-yachts

They’re marina-hopping to avoid sanctions - but who has the biggest boat? From record-breaking swimming pools to haute-gyms and their own submarines, Katie Strick has a guide to the biggest brashest boats in town

1 Apr 2022
Lifestyle

How celebs are rallying for Ukraine — from gigs to hosting refugees

JK Rowling has pledged £1 million and Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher and Sean Penn have been thanked by president Zelensky himself — but which star has donated the most? Katie Strick on how the A-listers are rallying for Ukraine

1 Apr 2022
Lifestyle

Zipcar for Jaguars: The Out app delivers soft-tops to your door

The luxe new car rental app is perfect for wedding season and spontaneous trips out of London. Katie Strick takes one of its fleet of Jaguar F-Types for a spin

31 Mar 2022
Lifestyle

Stella Moris on her extraordinary Belmarsh wedding to Julian Assange

The mother-of-two married the Wikileaks founder in a remarkable prison ceremony last week. In her first interview post-wedding, she tells Katie Strick why it was a rollercoaster (and the message Vivienne Westwood left inside her dress)

28 Mar 2022
Lifestyle

The Pig in the South Downs: A Regency haven (with its own vineyard)

Katie Strick checks in to Sussex’s most in-demand new bolthole

18 Mar 2022
Lifestyle

‘Putin is our enemy too’: the war has triggered a Russian youthquake

Russian millennials and young people are social media savvy, liberal - and horrified by their mother country’s actions in Ukraine. Katie Strick meets a politicised generation

16 Mar 2022
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Dr Ironfist: Who is Kyiv’s hero mayor (and ex-boxer) Vitali Klitschko?

The steely world champion boxer is married to a Russian model and is the son of a former Soviet Air Force general - but he’s determined to fight for his native Ukraine. Katie Strick on the man leading Kyiv’s 2.8 million residents through the invasion

16 Mar 2022
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How the Russian have-yachts became the have-nots

From Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich to energy tycoon Igor Sechin, Russian oligarchs are having their super-yachts seized all across Europe

15 Mar 2022
Lifestyle

International Women’s Day: 22 Londoners changing the world in 2022

From student climate activists to retired Holocaust survivors, Katie Strick meets some of the capital’s most inspiring female movers and shakers

8 Mar 2022
Lifestyle

St James’s Hotel & Club: a Mayfair institution perfect for port-lovers

The five-star boutique hotel offers Michelin-starred cooking and the widest variety of port in any London bar. Katie Strick checks in

28 Feb 2022
Lifestyle

On the ground in Kyiv — 8 of the best Ukraine correspondents to follow

Katie Strick rounds up the most reliable journalists tweeting minute-by-minute updates from the war zone

25 Feb 2022
Lifestyle

Is Lizzie Damilola Blackburn the next Bridget Jones?

Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? is a witty millennial novel is about love, life and London. Katie Strick meets the Peckham author

21 Feb 2022
Lifestyle

The fall of Prince Andrew — from party prince to royal pariah

The Duke of York has been stripped of all royal titles and agreed to pay his accuser millions in an out-of-court settlement — so how did it all go so wrong? Katie Strick charts the undoing of the man who was once second-in-line to the throne

17 Feb 2022
Lifestyle

My office is cooler than yours — London’s most enviable workplaces

Google’s 11-floor King’s Cross campus will feature a basketball court, massage rooms and rooftop running track, and Facebook is offering staff free pick ‘n’ mix - so which work perks would lure you back? Katie Strick finds out

16 Feb 2022
Lifestyle

Molly-Mae Hague to release tell-all memoir aged 22

Becoming Molly-Mae: My Story will becoming to a bookstore near you from June 9

11 Feb 2022
Lifestyle

Is No 10 comms chief Guto Harri the new Scaramucci?

Commentators say the Welsh ex-BBC journalist has a habit of making himself the story - so how long will he last as the PM’s spin doctor? Katie Strick asks those who know him

10 Feb 2022
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Reverse running — have you tried the hottest new workout trend?

The fitterati’s latest trick? Running in the opposite direction. Katie Strick trials the trend (without falling over)

10 Feb 2022
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Lifestyle

My stalker was free to harass me for 14 years — the law must change

For Kerri Layton, 36, details of last week’s Maida Vale murder brought back painful memories – the stalker who made her life miserable for more than a decade still hasn’t been sent to jail. Here, she tells her story

4 Feb 2022