The Latest Articles by Catherine Bennett

Pity SUV drivers, fast being priced out of their badges of contempt for the planet

With the royals as ambassadors for these luxury cars, there’s little hope for the rest of us

The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024

I found out the hard way the secret of Sunak’s Monday blunders – a 36-hour fast

Admire his discipline if you must, but should a PM make vital decisions when he’s starving?

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024

A bracing dip will cure us of the menopause, will it? Remind me to steer clear of the sewage

A new study suggests a fashionable hobby could help with hot flushes and other symptoms

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2024

Nigel Farage has been careful to bare nothing but his arse in I’m a Celebrity

The vanilla version the politician has presented in the jungle is worryingly relatable, and therein lies the rub

The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2023

The Tories happily overlooked the UAE’s human rights record – until it came for the Telegraph

Doing business as usual with despots seems suddenly unpalatable for some in the party

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2023

A vacuous, amoral elite who lost the plot. Saltburn or the Covid inquiry? It’s hard to tell

According to Sir Patrick Vallance’s evidence, figures ‘bamboozled’ Boris Johnson. Did he learn only entitlement at Eton?

The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2023

Lady Cameron’s diary: new job pays peanuts but it does get Dave out of the house

Meet the new foreign sec – tada! Chevening vg for parties and all Johnsons will go insane

The Guardian - UK · Nov 19, 2023

In adopting suffragettes as role models, Just Stop Oil is painting itself into a corner

Attacking Diego Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus failed to achieve votes for women in 1914, so why do it again?

The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2023

In Boris Johnson’s Lord of the Flies fraternity, women were there to be talked over or banished

It’s little wonder that No 10’s misogyny had fatal consequences for the female population

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2023

Better call Saul off, but isn’t this opera exactly why trigger warnings were invented?

A student production of Handel’s work about the Israelite king has been cancelled in case of parallels with Middle East war

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2023