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The Tories would have you believe we are all as terrible as they are. Don’t believe a word of it

As elections loom, Downing Street is trying to pretend that nobody’s behaviour matters, says the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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What did my son learn at school? That Thatcher was ‘OK’, apparently

I would tell him about the miners’ strike and the abolition of free school milk. But kids today hate coal and dairy, writes Zoe Williams

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The Oxford Union parades ignorance with no shame – no wonder the Tories love it

So Angela Rayner does not have Boris Johnson’s ‘debating training’. Is that a reference to mumbling about Peppa Pig World, asks Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Helping Mum canvass for Labour in the 80s, I think I actually turned people Tory

I’m unconvinced that knocking door to door works in bagging undecided voters, says the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Passive-aggressive notes are a staple of office life – Jacob Rees-Mogg has shown Westminster is no different

In every workplace there is one colleague who loves to create drama and conflict, which is just what the minister for Brexit opportunities has done with his missive to civil servants, writes Zoe Williams

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If Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak took lie detector tests, what would they tell us?

We have a need to believe what our leaders are saying. But, even with recourse to technology, that’s easier said than done, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Protecting the rights of women and trans people

Letters: Gillian Dalley and Dr Jane Hamlin respond to an article by Zoe Williams, and Jacqueline Darby reacts to a piece by Susanna Rustin. Plus Prof Martin Marshall on the ban on conversion therapy

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I’ve already wasted too much energy calorie-counting – pass the chorizo!

Pork belly at 2,500 calories, with a side of cauliflower cheese at nearly 500? Printing calories on menus forces people to either stay at home or stop caring, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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I want to tell the French: don’t do it! But all we can do is watch the elections from the sidelines

I’d love to stop Britain’s neighbour from repeating our mistakes, but advice from overseas counts for nothing – and can sometimes backfire, writes Zoe Williams

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Labour needs to own its policy on gender - and unequivocally back trans rights

The only person benefiting from this ‘debate’ is Boris Johnson, who is using the issue as a wedge to divide the opposition, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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There’s no such thing as ‘no-fault’ divorce – the phrase they’re looking for is ‘everybody’s fault’

I’m all for making break-ups less traumatic. But the new divorce law can’t strip out all the emotion, writes Zoe Williams

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Average child experiences 104 knocks and tumbles each year with grazed knees most common

Kids are most likely to suffer an accident in their own home, with two-thirds of parents using plasters to treat most scrapes and scratches according to a new study

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Why do people who try to tell us the truth suffer so much online abuse and so many lawsuits?

The messenger is often the target of gendered and personal attacks. It’s so much easier than hearing uncomfortable truths, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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How do you stop fake news about Covid? Not by silencing scientists who ask difficult questions

Whatever Twitter was doing when it banned the Oxford epidemiologist Carl Heneghan, it wasn’t protecting the world from disinformation, writes Zoe Williams

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What did my kids give me for Mother’s Day? A brief break in hostilities

The genuine way to mark the day is to stop doing the thing your mum hates. But watching my children attempt to be polite to each other was exhausting, writes Zoe Williams

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In the dark on the rules of the road

Letters: Cath Attlee on a lack of information about the new Highway Code and Chris French on the menace of e-scooters

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Long after Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is home and Boris Johnson’s gone, we’ll remember how he failed her

The prime minister’s incompetence cost Nazanin dear. She was a pawn in a chess game, dependent on the judgment of a man who has none, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Britain’s consumer champions are on fiery form – it must really be time to worry

Experts such as Martin Lewis and Richard Murphy are showing how essential they are as the cost-of-living crisis hits, says the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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I accidentally took my kids to a Jeremy Corbyn rally – how could I explain Stop the War to them?

They say you only discover how well you understand something when you try to tell someone else. When the someone else is a scathing preteen, you discover it even faster, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Tube staff and lecturers are showing how to stage a strike in the 21st century

Just because we live in a post-industrial era doesn’t mean industrial action has suddenly become obsolete, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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How could anybody dream of turning the brilliant A Little Life into another Sex and the City?

Hanya Yanagihara has written a screen adaptation of her acclaimed novel and the studios are not interested. But done right, it could be the ultimate box set, writes Zoe Williams

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What I learned about Russia and sanctions from eating cheese with an oligarch

The restaurant empire of the Russian billionaire Arkadiy Novikov taught me that you should always pay attention to how rich people are spending their money, writes Zoe Williams

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Expectant mothers are too often treated as an inconvenience – and we can’t blame a TV drama for that

The BBC’s new show This Is Going to Hurt is about overstretched doctors – but patronising pregnant women is a long-standing problem, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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We’re back arguing about fur and foie gras – I feel like I’m 14 again

The government are considering a U-turn on their pledge to ban the import of fur and foie gras, thanks to opposition from their own MPs. Is there nothing that can’t be turned into a culture war, asks columnist Zoe Williams

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Do fairytale weddings really mean an unhappy ending?

New research has shown that couples who have really expensive weddings are less likely to stay together than those who do it on the cheap. But that’s not the whole story, writes Zoe Williams

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