Zoe Williams

This is amazing. Genuinely thought it was from The Onion when I first glanced at the title.

I left it a bit late in the day but I'm determined to raise a little conscientious objector

Omg it's wee govey

You're tryna get me fired!

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

And some tangential royal business www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘We’ve been paying for happy endings for Andrew for years’: the inside story of a royal disgrace, by his biographer Andrew Lownie spent years investigating the greed and excesses of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson for his book Entitled. Here, the writer reveals the barriers he faced in getting to the ...

This is still pretty nail biting stuff, even after it got legalled www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News" How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

So many of the cliches of this mode of thought - "park tanks on his lawn"; "shoot his fox" - are class-coded and archaic, like a vocabulary invented to say "your reasonable point that this is bullshit cannot be accepted at this time, because you are not posh or old enough"

This is actually interesting disclosure, because it makes explicit what a lot of commentators think: that all politics is about orientating yourself relationally with/ against your nearest opponent, rather than having a plan or vision or even a reliable set of values of your own

Charleston — Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia What does it mean to keep speaking when silence is safer? ‘Pussy Riot’ activist Maria Alyokhina talks to The Guardian’s Zoe Williams.

Last time I did Charleston, I left my vape with a nice lady from the organisers, where it combusted and filled the air with an acrid smell, but this time, looks like we'll all be allowed to vape on stage inshallah www.charleston.org.uk/event/politi...

Gaza: Israel’s AI Human Laboratory Israel’s use of artificial intelligence has wreaked horrific destruction on Gaza; this technology will likely be sold across the globe in the near future

I've worried a little bit about the intersection of surveillance technology, anticipatory policing algorithms, AI target identification and moral fading since I read this www.thecairoreview.com/essays/gaza-...

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Oi

This Lionel Shriver interview is reminding me of the most unpleasant, misandrist, sneering and two-dimensional book I ever read. Because she also wrote that

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

Wrote this because I was annoyed that Antonia Romeo got crowned queen of woke, even tho from the little I know of her, she does seem to be yasss, queen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

20 Questions With Zoe Williams

Appreciated this searching conversation with Matt Stadlen open.spotify.com/episode/6Rwp...

Brilliant episode

Total aside, but this prompt is from Bruges la Morte in which he is using the dead wife's hair to kill his lover

Yup and I love Gillian and Barbara

Absolutely love this Sky journalist x.com/SkyNews/stat...

‘Demand has increased, without a doubt’: the shocking rise of personal protection dogs Pets trained to bite, hold and release on command are growing ever more popular in the UK. But why – and at what cost to the animals and their owners?

Fascinating piece by my esteemed colleague Elle Hunt www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Wes Streeting mansplaining decency in public life, having been Peter Mandelson's great defender, is kind of sickening and funny in equal parts.

How did British Muslims become ‘the problem’? – podcast Miqdaad Versi, Shaista Aziz, Aamna Mohdin and Nosheen Iqbal on the rise of the far right and growing Islamophobia in the UK

This is so brilliant & funny & enraging How did British Muslims become ‘the problem’? – podcast www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Would you talk about them to The Guardian? (I'm doing a feature about the TV show landing in the UK but I need some background on the books)

Lols I knew it wasn't great

@fuguesmagazine.bsky.social bonjour je cherches Caro Lavigne pour une articles dans Le Guardian en Angleterre, estceque vous pouvais nous connecterons?

African descended people are walking around with surnames like McCalmont and Mcdonald but you're saying it's European culture facing erasure 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Oh my god, you genius! It is that!

Bsky probably isn't London-dense enough for this crowd-source, but does anyone remember the name of a tiny pub in Wandsworth in the late 80s, round the corner from the Alma on Alma Road, that was so old school it didn't have a Ladies Toilet? (no, I don't know why I capped that either)

I was quite staggered, listening to PM: Davies approached it like a parlour game riddle, "isn't it interesting, how both sides can watch the same videos and just see what suits their own existing view?"