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Zoe WilliamsThe Guardian |
It’s the start of September, so time to bid adieu to the classic holiday selfie: two brown knees. If it’s on the socials there might be a caption...
Prisons in England and Wales are full because sentences have increased, and everybody knows this. Lord chief justices know this – four of them said...
Lewis Bassett is a young sociologist and chef who I first encountered through his podcast, The Full English, where he thinks about the cultural...
No 10: Full Confidence is the game all the lobby journalists and backbenchers are playing on their phones. Westminster hasn’t been so united by an...
My son sent me a picture of his university accommodation, which looked perfectly nice, but there was something off about it. It was a little bit too...
In one of the most poignant vox pops I ever did, I wasn’t even looking for Neets, AKA young people who aren’t in education, employment or...
Andy Burnham is going on a “listening tour”, travelling the country on a bus to find out what real people are concerned about. I’ve heard...
As tributes poured in for Rod Liddle, the Sunday Times and Sun columnist who has died at the age of 66, they were markedly coy and sanitised....
I went to a market recently in the Cévennes, in southern France. It was piled high with things that in principle I’m interested in, but wouldn’t...
‘I’ve seen no evidence of Andy being anti-London,” the capital’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, told the Evening Standard last week, which is quaint and...
I did not walk into Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey intending to pick holes. If there was zero sexual chemistry between Odysseus and Circe, who was...
In the BBC’s new apocalypse drama, The Rapture, the UK is engulfed in a terrifying heatwave. I watched a preview of the programme in May, while...
After about five minutes of my stepmother’s company, I’m always in a good mood. It’s not because of our beautiful harmony, though please think...
The personal experience of long-term unemployment is one people rarely share, for completely understandable reasons. There’s a bit of superstition...
Two years ago, Katie White set up Enough, which distributes self-swabbing rape kits. These are DIY kits that people who believe they have been raped...
Andy Burnham yesterday got himself clear of the magic number – the 323 Labour MPs who had to support him to make any leadership challenge...
Trying to sell a house is pretty much a once-a-decade event for me, so I shouldn’t be surprised that times have changed. When I sold my first flat...
Sitting outside a bar at the weekend, I noticed something coming out of my bag that looked and also smelled a lot like a naked flame. Ordinarily,...
When I went to bed on Sunday, football commentators were killing time waiting for the England match by talking about Donald Trump, Fifa president...
There is some uncertainty and trepidation in these liminal days before the nomination period for the next Labour leader opens. But it’s not about...
When I was young, and Halloween was just becoming a thing, and other people’s mums were doing fun stuff like blindfolding children and sticking...
I never decided to stop reading novels; I just fell out of the loop. You need to meet a few basic conditions to disappear into a story: a medium...
My uncle has a mature and beautiful gingko tree, which also goes by the name of memory tree, which is a little ironic because he can’t remember...
‘Concerns over therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK’s largest children’s prison” was how the Guardian’s own headline reported recent...
When 200,000 protesters gathered to meet the G8 summit in Genoa, 25 years ago, their point (our point, in fact; I went on a coach, it took two and a...
In February, my sister and I took the ferry from Dover to Dunkirk. On the way back, I noticed there was a deal: spend €150 (£130) in duty free and...
When I was young, there was a huge list of things you shouldn’t do, or specifically wear, over the age of 30; there were fewer explicit rules about...
Whenever my kids and I are stationary in the same room, within five minutes they will have started talking about football. Every now and then, a name...
There comes a point in every friendship ecosystem when someone suggests starting a book group. It’s a beautiful moment, the platonic modern...
Last weekend, Your Party officially split, with 250 members voting to start a second leftwing party, the Socialist Federation. Neither Jeremy Corbyn...
On a day as hot as hell last week, the only thing I had left to take off without causing offence was my fringe. So I went into a barber and asked him...
It’s said to be mother nature’s stunning con trick, the single most helpful move in the propagation of the species – that childbirth might be...
For any birthday party with a zero at the end, the music is supposed to be very simple: you just pick a banger from the year the person was born and...
In preparation for interviewing Pussy Riot’s Maria “Masha” Alyokhina at the Charleston festival, I was reading her new memoir, Political Girl. I...
Nothing makes you feel more like a de-developing nation than being reprimanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Rachel Reeves can take solace...
There’s a chart doing the rounds on social media, ranking philosophers by how punk they are. Hobbes and Heidegger, it says, are “basically a...
It is a gruesome shock and yet was entirely predictable: we stand on the brink of a byelection that is three things at once. First, a straight...
For reasons purely related to vanity, I’ve had to give up coffee. It’s not for ever, unless it takes me for ever to get my teeth whitened, so...
In the late 1800s, the boxing and wrestling scene of east and south-east London was going through a transformation, and if you are genuinely...
Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister, is the bookmakers’ favourite to be Keir Starmer’s successor. She is also someone who has recently...
If you’re looking for sound, practical advice on what happens when an elderly parent dies – the so-called “sadmin” – then you shouldn’t...
All parties struggle to invest local elections with meaning, because no party can alter the consequences of what is coming up to two decades of...
For boomers, old age begins at 75, according to a new survey, while gen X considers the start date of decrepitude to be 70, and millennials are a...
At what point, as you consider the prime minister’s shortcomings more in sorrow than in anger, as you size up likely successors and try to wonder,...
If all you know about Shabana Mahmood’s interview with the comedian Matt Forde, which was recorded live at a West End theatre on Monday, is that she...
I was driving my niece to university, and my son asked what time I’d be back, which was itself inherently sad. When they’re little and you’re...
If there’s one thing I love more than being canvassed at local election time, it’s being canvassed when I’m at someone else’s house. I promise...
An army dude once told me, “A speech should be like a lady’s skirt: short enough to be interesting, long enough to cover the main points”, and I...
The most awkward thing to happen when King Charles visited President Nixon as a young man – it was 1970, the then-prince was 21 – was that...
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