Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Zoe Williams

What does the Covid inquiry really tell us? If another pandemic arrived tomorrow, nothing would be better

The argument for holding an inquiry is sound, but the really depressing thing is that none of those elected have learned a thing, says Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Suella Braverman’s letter to Rishi Sunak is a key contribution to a hilarious new Tory genre

Their cod legalese and baffling histrionics have us rolling in the aisles – but what are these wacky no-confidence letters trying to distract us from?, asks Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

The problem with tech bro philanthropy

They claim altruistic motives, but billionaires’ favoured brand of do-gooding, which allows no scrutiny or pluralism, is worse than unhelpful, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Rejoice at this U-turn over rail ticket office closures – whatever the reasons for it

I would love it if Mark Harper’s about-face was a response to public opinion. But there were subtler political forces involved, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

You know that book everyone raves about? Just give in and read it!

There’s no virtue in avoiding something simply because it’s popular. And yes, it has taken me a year to tackle the latest Barbara Kingsolver, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him

The X owner has no time for a democratic experiment dedicated to knowledge. He would rather yell puerile ‘jokes’ into the ether, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

After 13 years of Tory law and order, there has never been a better time to be a criminal

Ministers won’t accept their failure on crime. But when M&S hires former cops to guard its steaks, that failure is plain to see, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

What keeps couples warm in winter? The battle over the thermostat

The UK has suddenly gone from summer heat to shivering cold and across the land the annual arguments have begun, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Madonna, Pamela Anderson and I agree – take your idea of how a woman should look, and shove it

A woman in the public eye will be judged by an ever-changing standard: too strident, too provocative, too predatory, too thin, too fat, too muscly and very soon too old. The only dignified answer? Smash the patriarchy, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

We’re ready to rip up our flag-waving Labour membership cards

Letters: Readers respond to Zoe Williams’s article about the redesign of the card, which now includes the union jack and the words ‘country first’ on one side

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer’s conference speech: has he done enough to win the general election?

Our panel weighs in on whether the Labour leader will have won over the doubters

The Guardian - UK

I will never leave Labour – but my new membership card makes me uneasy

There is now a union flag on one side, and a call to put ‘country first’ on the other. Does this really give anyone a lovely, warm, modern vibe, asks Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

London’s Vagina Museum to reopen after surpassing fundraising goal

World’s first museum devoted to the female organ moves to bigger premises after more than 2,500 people donated

The Guardian - UK

Competitive, warm and conservative: what exactly makes someone a dog person?

Not sure why you love hanging out with your canine buddy so much? Here are the qualities in dogs – and you – that help explain it

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak is really, really rich. Will it hurt his electoral chances?

Heating his personal pool during a cost of living crisis? Donating millions to elite schools? The PM is banking on us filing this all apathetically under ‘stuff rich people do’, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

What the latest Meghan story tells us about the culture wars

The Duchess of Sussex for California senator? Now where could they possibly have got that idea, asks Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

A list of the UK’s top podcasts poses the question: what is it with all the bros?

The format was made a phenomenon by women, but now you can hardly hear them – unless they’re discussing their husbands, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

‘I could see Carrie Johnson wearing this’: tales from my brutal wardrobe detox

A friend’s harsh criticisms of my moth-eaten jumpers had me throwing things out faster than she could say: ‘Why don’t you have any normal clothes?’, writes Zoe Williams

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

The inheritance tax debate we should really be having? Whether to set it at 100%

Supposedly, Rishi Sunak stands to gain from his proposed tax reforms. Newsflash: he was never going to lose out in our rigged system anyway, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

God save us from our antiquated and Anglocentric ‘national’ anthem

Letters: It’s time God Save the King made way for a more appropriate anthem for England’s sporting teams, argues Katherine Arnott. Plus letters from Michael Bulley, Dr Andrew Pennington and Pamela Collins

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss’s comeback defies all belief – until you understand the rotten forces making it possible

A weak PM, a dying government, a radicalised rightwing press: these are the foundations of Truss’s unlikely relaunch, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

In the Russell Brand scandal, let’s remember the women

Letters: Too often, the women at the heart of these stories are stripped of their humanity and treated as if they have no worth, writes one reader. Plus letters from Hettie Hope, Angela Donnelly, Michele Roberts and Linda Karlsen

The Guardian - UK

I never considered work romantic – until I heard about the ‘office 10’

Apparently, the closed ecoystem of the workplace makes ordinary folk seem unbelievably beautiful. That’s not how I remember it, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

The booing of the national anthem shows the vulnerability of King Charles’s reign

He lacks the late Queen’s aura of inevitability, nobility and self-abnegation – and so the jeering at sports events is only getting louder, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

‘Middle-aged Love Island’ is here – a concept with an obvious flaw

My Mum, Your Dad switches the focus from twentysomethings to their parents. If they are anything like as buff as their kids, they’re bound to be boringly disciplined, writes Zoe Williams

1 … 9 10 11 12

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.