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Ashley Baker

Ashley Baker


Ashley Baker is the Deputy Editor for AIR MAIL. She also co-hosts AIR MAIL’s weekly podcast, Morning Meeting, alongside Writer at Large Michael Hainey. Baker lives in London.

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“Defense Debbies” and the Rise of Gun-Loving Mothers

Thanks to Instagram, “arms and the woman” is a style statement

Will This Be the Perfect Italian Summer?

Mediterranean beaches unspoiled by oligarchs! (Well, almost … )

Another Jewel in Lake Como’s Crown

The brand-new Passalacqua feels more like an intimate club than a hotel

A Cold War Spy Caper

Moviemaker Whit Stillman on the story behind his story. Plus, Errol Morris stops by

High Class in Western Mass.

A new boutique in the Berkshires has quickly become a style destination

The Man Behind Bob Marley

A conversation about Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records

The Right Kind of Ghosts

A terrific 70s vibe is only part of the many charms of Goblin Hill, in Jamaica

Gen Z’s Hot New Drug

This week on the podcast, a closer look at kratom. Plus, would you pay $700 to eat some ants?

Inside the Hit Comedy Hacks

A look at what awaits Jean Smart in Season Two

Barbarians Inside the Gates

What happens when the junior staff at Goldman Sachs doesn’t want to go back to the office?

The Little House That Rocked L.A.

In the 1960s, Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward’s place in the hills was the center of an arts explosion

The Inside Story on Anna Wintour

You bring the coffee; we’ll bring the buzz

What Is Princess Di’s Brother Talking About?

It’s the Bridgerton effect. Everyone wants to cash in on the U.K.’s great estates

Will Prince Andrew Tank the Firm?

He’s desperately clinging to Mummy in public, and that’s not good for Charles and William

Castello di Vicarello

On a hilltop in Italy’s Maremma region, it’s as close to paradise as one can get

Can Love Actually Explain Putin’s Behavior?

How a rom-com just might help us understand a very troubled man …

Cirencester Estate, in the Cotswolds

Where the Downton Abbey vibe meets 21st-century service

What Really Happened Inside Hollywood’s Hottest Party

Confessions of (and dirt-dishing from) a Vanity Fair dilettante

A “Band of Brothers” Re-unites for Ukraine

Behind the story of the photojournalism greats who came out of retirement to take on Putin

A New Russian Dissident Speaks Up

Why some Russians are choosing to stay and protest, rather than flee

One Journalist Who Actually Stood Up to Trump

The truth about what happened the night The Donald got turned away from a Vanity Fair party

David Lynch Comes to Greenwich, Connecticut

A very twisted sex scandal, the invasion of Ukraine, and more in this week’s podcast

Trump Write Pretty One Day

On this week’s episode, James Wolcott shares what he discovered reading the ex-president’s coffee-table book

It’s BoJo the Clown!

Can Boris Johnson survive Partygate? And speaking of scandal: Who is stealing L.A.’s French bulldogs?