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Is space exploration worth the money and effort?

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Zoe Williams in which she argued the space race was pointless

The Guardian - UK

Ed Miliband hold firm! North sea oil and gas drilling won’t help anyone other than Nigel Farage

It’s worrying to watch Labour entertain Reform’s fantasies about fossil fuels. Only renewables will bring lower bills and higher energy security, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Let’s stop going into space. There’s nothing to see and no one to talk to

I’ve nothing against astronauts or scientific innovation. But what’s the point of Artemis II, asks Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

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Do we really need truncheons and pepper spray to fight off London’s ‘feral’ teenage shoplifters?

I don’t want to minimise the scenes in Clapham High Street. But how about dialling things down a notch, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

This 30-second test is a 'simple' way to measure ageing at home, scientists say

A study has found the best ageing test to do at home, with a simple exercise that's done according to age

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How much time and money do I spend at the dentist? Put it this way: he bought himself a Ferrari

I’m not saying I paid for all of it. But I probably should have flossed more, says Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Why is Labour so unpopular? Just look at the dithering over kids’ screen time

Keir Starmer is running out of patience with the social media platforms, after Meta and Google’s landmark legal defeat in Los Angeles. But this ‘strongest intervention yet’ comes years too late, writes Zoe Williams

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Girlguiding didn’t have to do this to its trans members. There was another way

Girlguiding’s response to last year’s supreme court ruling is not the humane option – and changes the organisation’s identity, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

I saw Rachel Reeves while out shopping with my teenager. Apparently I completely humiliated myself

It’s hard to know how to handle meeting a famous person in public. I decided to forgo political debate for a simple ‘Hello’, but my daughter assures me I was the most mortifying I’ve ever been, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Do we have to keep talking about AI? The machines are always one step ahead

Whether you want to free it or regulate it into submission, one thing is clear: this new technology is moving so fast that we can’t fully grasp it, says Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Terrorism arrests rose 1,114% last year – so why aren’t the security services more alarmed?

Due to an ongoing judicial review, Home Office data currently leaves out the thousands of people apprehended at Palestine Action protests. But whichever way you cut it, the number of arrests is outrageous, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Would a new leader be the answer to Labour’s woes?

Letters: Readers respond to articles by Zoe Williams and Clive Lewis about the party’s popularity crisis

The Guardian - UK

How should a woman dress in her 50s? Gwyneth Paltrow just changed the game

The red carpet raises all kinds of questions, writes Zoe Williams. What is the age range of a feather boa? Sequins: mutton or lamb? In the face of the carping and scrutiny, Paltrow has issued a bold sartorial retort

The Guardian - UK

There is no denying Labour is in crisis – but in a strange way, Keir Starmer is equipped to save it

The fact that the PM is a pragmatist, light on ideology, could allow him to forge now essential links with other parties, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Get ready for price shocks because of Iran? How are we supposed to do that?

From energy to food, all of life’s essentials are about to get even more expensive. But just knowing that won’t pay the bills, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Why do we need International Women’s Day? Apart from misogyny and Christian nationalism, you mean?

I should probably be fuming about the way that companies try to cash in on IWD. But there are so many vile opinions to worry about instead, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

‘Boobgate’ tells us nothing about Zack Polanski

The anti-Green media were overjoyed when they happened upon this story from the party leader’s former career as a hypnotherapist. In fact, they’re the ones who have been bamboozled, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

UK politicians are in a race to the bottom – but there is a simple, unexpected way to help refugees

The home secretary is seeking to make refugee status temporary. Let’s go in the opposite direction and fight for an essential right, says Zoe Williams

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Five Great Reads: New York’s favourite dive bar, coping with chronic fatigue, and a royal biographer spills the beans

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - UK

Great news! Bookies think Labour can win the next election. Bad news! It’s down to Elon Musk

The Reform vote is being eaten into by the Musk-backed Restore Britain, led by Rupert Lowe. I fear that Labour may read the wrong message from all this, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Why are my friends so opinionated about reading glasses? I blame denial

From contacts to denial by big font, the real battleground of getting older is admitting we can’t see any more, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Award ceremonies can be anodyne – but Prince William’s Bafta moment broke through

It used to be accepted fact that nothing political or controversial would be mentioned within spitting distance of a podium. In the last few weeks that silent agreement has ended, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

What exactly is it about Britons that makes us so good at hurtling down an icy drainpipe?

Team GB has swept up the skeleton medals at the Winter Olympics. I suspect it’s something to do with our capacity at weathering tremendous, impotent fear, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Nothing says the ‘special relationship’ is over like this picture of Donald Trump and Liz Truss

It’s awkward, nobody seems to know what is going on, and the president’s thumb is at half-mast. It’s almost a metaphor for diplomatic relations between the US and the UK, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

If Starmer’s prospective top civil servant really is the ‘queen of woke’, let’s agree that word has lost all meaning

The incoming cabinet secretary, Antonia Romeo, worked under the notoriously woke David Cameron and Theresa May. Maybe she was a double agent? says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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