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Mother’s Day has restored my hope in 2025 – but my kids had nothing to do with it

I’ve blown hot and cold on the virtue of Mothering Sunday, but I’m convinced it serves as a meteorological bellwether, writes Zoe Williams

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How to fight a fascist state – what I learned from a second world war briefing for secret agents

You can forget the advice on disguises, secret codes and spreading propaganda by dropping leaflets in train carriages. But there is something for us all here about the need for action, writes Zoe Williams

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Reeves’s Sabrina Carpenter freebie furore proves today’s politicians should avoid one thing: fun

With the UK mired in gloom for the foreseeable future, how can the chancellor possibly think about enjoying herself, asks Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Badenoch’s attack on net zero is ridiculous. But so were the right’s Brexit claims, and look where they left us

The run-up to 2016 shows ‘common sense’ isn’t enough. Even ignorant, reactionary arguments must be properly countered, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Book swaps at tube stations are invaluable – bring them back

Letters: Gill Saunders urges a rethink of the ban. Veronica Porter says everything should be done to encourage book ownership

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My beloved tube station book-swap has gone. Who’s to blame for its passing?

There has been outrage over Transport for London’s decision to remove those mini station libraries, writes Zoe Williams, but let’s not rush to call it ‘health and safety gone mad’

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Labour is gaslighting disabled people – and that should terrify us all

The messaging that suggests poverty is caused by low aspiration and that disability is a choice could have come straight from the Conservatives’ playbook, writes Zoe Williams

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Why the whippet will always be top dog

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Zoe Williams on Crufts and the winning whippet

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How did Reform end up in such a mess? Is that a serious question?

Nigel Farage’s team is down to four MPs, with the suspended Rupert Lowe denouncing it as a “protest party led by the messiah”. Let’s not waste time wondering who’s wrong and who’s right, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Crap jobs, fewer homes, less money, toxic politics. And peak happiness eludes the young: who knew?

Given recent history and the state of the world now, perhaps the thing that makes older people happiest is not being under 45, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Someone left a strange wheelbarrow in my kitchen. Now what do I do?

It’s not mine and I don’t know where it came from. I’m just hoping that someone will take it away again, writes Zoe Williams

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There’s no denying Trump’s true nature any more. But what will it take to stop another visit to the UK?

The US president appals both leftwingers and rightwingers. Can they really keep him away with protests and petitions, asks Zoe Williams

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Welcome back Billy McFarland and a new Fyre festival. Shows you can’t keep a good fantasist down

Fresh out of jail, does it matter that his 2017 festival was one of the biggest social-media-driven deceptions of our time? Not a bit, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Welcome to Britain in 2025 – where there is a heist in my local shop and no one is surprised

Three young men began stealing all the cigarettes and the staff responded with pure resignation. Society is unspooling before our eyes, writes Zoe Williams

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The fight at the heart of the German election is simmering everywhere

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Say it loud: this is fascism – and we must all resist it

Letters: We must guard against the ‘bystander effect’ when we encounter creeping fascism, writes Dr Caroline Vincent. Plus letters from Paul Goldreich, Russell Simpson and Robin Shohet

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James Murdoch has spilled the beans, and the reality is more miserable than we – or Succession – ever imagined

From the psychological torture to the inexorable rightward drift of the family business, it’s not much fun being a Murdoch, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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What I learned from a lovely woman on a packed ward in hospital

Healthy people are being forced to stay in hospital because of a lack of social care – and it’s an indictment of our current system, writes Zoe Williams

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The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it?

The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams

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Who wants to look a million dollars, these days?

There was a time when being a millionaire represented fantastical, unimaginable wealth – but our language needs an update, writes Zoe Williams

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Trump is driving political debate to ever new lows. The left must hold on to its values

Even his most ridiculous executive orders have an ugly effect on politics around the world. We can’t just ignore the US president. But nor can we succumb to the momentum of the right, writes Zoe Williams

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The idea of ‘welfare’ has lost all meaning. Just look at the cruel state of women’s prisons

A new report says there’s a ‘basic lack of decency’ in England’s jails. It’s a motif repeated across a nation stripped to the bone, says columnist Zoe Williams

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Who started the culture war between cyclists and drivers?

I’ve never actually met a cyclist who wants to be part of this battle, writes Zoe Williams. So what is behind this bizarre and stubborn standoff?

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Bridget Jones is a welcome reminder of a much more comfortable era

She worried about her drinking, smoking and weight – but there was never any doubt she would have a job and be able to pay her rent. It’s a very different world for gen Z, writes Zoe Williams

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Accept that tube seat graciously, Zoe

Letter: If someone is rebuffed, they may not offer a second time, writes Barbara Foster

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