First Thing: Student charged after Georgia high school shooting FBI says it investigated suspect and his father a year ago. Plus, con artist Anna Sorokin to don ankle monitor on Dancing With the Stars The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2024
Want to know the problem, Tories? You’re … weird. And even your own tribe thinks so The Conservative leadership race reveals a party still banging the same old drums. Natural Tory voters are looking on askance, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2024
Good riddance. Ofsted’s one-word ranking system for schools never made any sense ‘Outstanding, ‘good’, ‘requires improvement’ … none of the labels meant what they were supposed to. But so much depended on them, writes Zoe Williams The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2024
Humanity should shape Home Office policy on immigration Letters: Jane Basham and Gerard Marshall respond to an article by Zoe Williams on Yvette Cooper’s recent announcement The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2024
It’s 2024 and I might be the last person on earth to watch The Walking Dead. What a loser! All I want to talk about is zombie lore and character arc – but everyone else is over it, writes Zoe Williams The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2024
Of course Kirstie Allsopp is happy for her 15-year-old to go Interrailing on his own. It’s ‘character-building’! The posh have their own way of child-rearing. You don’t create the next generation of leaders by mollycoddling them, writes Zoe Williams The Guardian - UK · Aug 26, 2024
Theresa May-lite or real humanitarian? Yvette Cooper’s new migrant plan makes me fear the worst Labour is wasting its time on efforts to appeal to all sides in the debate. The likes of Nigel Farage will never be satisfied, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2024
Why the funniest jokes at the Edinburgh fringe just didn’t make me laugh In standup especially, a joke is indivisible from its context. The ‘you had to be there’ rule should be more carefully observed, writes Zoe Williams The Guardian - UK · Aug 20, 2024
What does it mean to be 16 today? It is totally different to when I was growing up On the day I opened my GCSE results, my parents weren’t looking over my shoulder, cameras poised. Lucky really, because I’d just smoked 20 cigarettes, writes Zoe Williams The Guardian - UK · Aug 19, 2024
Fighting on a plane is not a good idea – and I should know When I got into an altercation with a fellow passenger as I tried to pass her in the aisle, any sense of rationality left me, writes Zoe Williams The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2024
Can menopause be fun and sexy? Yes, according to Miranda July In her latest novel, All Fours, the perimenopause is a time of crisis, rebirth and radical sexual awakening. Watch out, says Zoe Williams The Guardian - UK · Aug 12, 2024
The joy of sexy fiction, by women for women Letters: Readers respond to a piece by Zoe Williams in which she reflects on reading smut and notes how attitudes have changed The Guardian - UK · Aug 9, 2024
Britain’s jails are in terrible crisis, but prison can work. I know, I’ve seen it Gross failings at HMP Wandsworth are symptomatic of a system so ravaged by austerity it has lost its humanity. Who does that serve, asks Guardian columnist Zoe Williams The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2024
Morrissey’s Irish Blood, English Heart is by no means a far-right anthem Letters: Readers dispute Zoe Williams’ characterisation of a track from the singer-songwriter’s 2004 album You Are the Quarry The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2024 Why do I love Greggs? Let me count the ways From the vegan sausage roll, to free food and drink for employees, Greggs has always had my vote. And now it seems customers agree, writes Zoe Williams
The Guardian - UK · Aug 5, 2024 From RFK Jr’s dead bear to a shot dog, why do US politicians keep throwing us red meat? We are living through the age of the meatfluencer and it has led to some strange stories in this election cycle – few stranger than Kennedy’s latest, writes Zoe Williams
The Guardian - US · Aug 3, 2024 This one weird trick might win Democrats the election Republicans are freaking out that their grotesque policies and bizarre politicians are now being called weird by Democrats
The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2024 We have allowed the demonisation and dehumanisation of male refugees. They are victims too The right calls them ‘economic migrants’; progressives respond by focusing on women and children. I’ve fallen into that trap myself, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2024 A Morrissey tribute band separates the art from the artist – but I still end up feeling queasy His 2004 song Irish Blood, English Heart turns out to have been a massively leading indicator of how ugly politics was going to become, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2024 Why does the Olympics turn me into such an absolute animal? As soon as the Games start, it kicks in: the armchair expertise, the deep well of totally imagined knowledge, the phantom athleticism. I’m not sure this is the spirit of global togetherness the events are supposed to foster, writes Zoe Williams
The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2024 This Morning’s Dr Zoe Williams: Nobody should be smoking at home where there’s a child or pregnant mother Quitting smoking can be extremely difficult, but there are lots of treatments options out there to help.
The Guardian - UK · Jul 16, 2024 My sausage-like fingers are not sexy. But they have given me one incredible talent I have an excellent genetic inheritance: I can carry four pints at once and am treated with awe and respect in every bar I enter, writes Zoe Williams
The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2024 Forget the football! Eleven days into a Labour government, here are reasons to be hopeful From climate crisis to the culture wars, this is a moment of genuine change – and a little optimism is finally possible, writes Zoe Williams
The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2024 Making Britain’s voting system fairer won’t enable parties like Reform – it’s the only way to challenge them Bringing in proportional representation is the best way of defending and rebuilding the legitimacy of our democracy, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2024 My kids are holidaying without me – and I’m worried they’ll repeat my foreign faux pas As my nonchalant offspring head to France, I have tried to instil in them a hard-learned lesson about hunger, buffet cars and theft, says Zoe Williams