HISTORICAL FACTS: 10 - The Untold Story

Having as many babies as possible is not the only way to show you love humanity

Elon Musk is obsessed with falling birth rates, as is the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán. Why would leftwingers want to buy into their ‘pronatalist’ agenda, asks Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK · Apr 15, 2025

So Katy Perry went to space. Wasn’t there anyone else we could have sent?

No disrespect to the pop star or the rest of Blue Origin’s all-female crew, but most of them weren’t obvious astronaut material, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2025

Oh, the terrible guilt of enjoying time off in the sun, when my teenager’s up to her neck in GCSEs

It’s the school holidays and the whole family is having a ball – except poor Cinders, stuck indoors revising, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2025

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2025

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2025

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’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2025

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2025

Why the whippet will always be top dog

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2025

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2025

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2025