Why a gin and tonic really is the naffest drink of summer 2025… What's hot (and not) this week

Kim K trial

Buckle in for the trial of a generation as the French “grandpa robbers” who held Kardashian at gunpoint and nicked $10m worth of bling finally go on the stand. Kim to testify on May 13.

MDMA in the back garden

Lorde has single-handedly reinvigorated the MDMA market in time for BBQ season with her new song What Was That.

Kensington

Home of hot new restaurant The Lavery, Chiltern replacement The Roof Gardens and nightclub Gallery. W8 is back.

Polygamous working

WFH means more people now secretly work two or more full-time jobs. Power to them.

Celebrity Traitors

Enough with the Traitors hype now. Kudos to the booker who has wrangled Stephen Fry and co, but I shall not be tuning in to the kilt fest.

Full body tatts

Pete Davidson is having hundreds of tattoos removed, which he says is “like putting your arm on a grill and burning off a layer”. Avoid in first place.

The M&S collapse

I fear no one has worried enough about what comes after the “crippling hack” which has left M&S on its knees for a week.

Gin and tonics

The whole ordeal has become so undignified. Everyone barking “just the cheapest gin” at bar staff who require JCB machinery to dump tons of ice into Malaga fish bowls. Naffer than Whispering Angel this summer.