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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 9h

Many smart, sad lines in this Runciman piece www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... but my favourite is this

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Is it about the world going to hell in a handcart?

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

thank you!

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

thank you! x

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

@mark-bray.bsky.social let me try that again, less ineptly: Hi, I'm a feature writer on @theguardian.com, could you follow me for a second so I can DM? (you can probs guess what I'm after)

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

@mark-bray Hi there, can you follow me for a sec so I can DM? I'm a feature writer on the @theguardian.com (you can probs guess what I'm after)

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

It's not acceptable and you're missing the point, I think on purpose. Just because everyone else is doing a legitimate pile on about transphobia doesn't bring back Twitter rules of 'miss the point on purpose'

Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

It is absolutely true that it was the agenda - but it wasn't the language of Cameroonian conservatism. The language was pull together, tighten belts, Big Society. Obviously I'm not saying it wasn't bollocks: but it wasn't framed exclusively around othering and civil war

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

Yuh I fucked up. & I can't delete it bc that's against my principles 😢

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

yes I waded into this as a joke and did not have an answer prepared here.

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

How dare Kemi Badenoch say "given it's the Guardian"? We don't make things up! That's one of the most annoying things about us

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sorry to harp on, but how can Kemi Badenoch *possibly exist* in a party alongside a guy who complains about not seeing enough white faces. How is that possible?

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

This is a huge loss in my culture www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Absolutely divine!’ How Jilly Cooper changed the world – one bonkbuster at a time

Her romances were so intelligent, raunchy and outrageously readable that she created her own category, bewitching generations of readers

www.theguardian.com

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

You write one tiny thing about the tories www.theguardian.com/profile/zoew... and they just get even more like the shit you're talking about www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Zoe Williams | The Guardian

<p>Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist</p>

www.theguardian.com

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 8d

Grrr goddam humans, who need to break after season one to make season two, this is so good open.spotify.com/episode/67sR...

10. MEDUSA - Here's Looking at You, Kid

open.spotify.com

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 9d

I did not expect to feel this strongly about Celebrity Traitors www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The joy of The Traitors is in rooting for real people. Does anyone care about celebrities in that way? | Zoe Williams

Having famous contestants is a betrayal of all that’s great about the show – and a misunderstanding of what makes humans tick, says Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 22d

Whenever I panic about the world, I imagine some future in which loads and loads of Brenda Hales make all the decisions, and then I feel fine, more than, really www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

Baroness Hale on her stupendous, eye-opening life in the law: ‘People are capable of treating tiny children very, very badly’

She was the first female president of the supreme court, causing a ruckus when she ruled against Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament. Now she has written an insider’s take on the UK’s underfunded...

www.theguardian.com

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 24d

This is good from Sadiq x.com/MayorofLondo...

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan on X: "In London, hate will never win. https://t.co/Lm424D4SeR" / X

In London, hate will never win. https://t.co/Lm424D4SeR

x.com

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 27d

www.instagram.com/reel/DOk1aUc...

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Reposted by Zoe Williams

Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 27d

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson.

Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word.

This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 7

Who could possibly have foreseen?

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 2

If you would like his life story, organised in a slightly confusing fashion (by me), you could start with this interview www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘I thought politics was a dirty thing’ – Zack Polanski on his ‘eco-populist’ vision for the Green party

He’s worked as an actor and a hypnotherapist – and has even been arrested. The Greens’ leadership challenger has had an unconventional route into politics and he’s ready to take on Labour and Reform

www.theguardian.com

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 2

Nearly started crying at this photo & I'm not even a Green. Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · Aug 29

my god, Philippe Sands has the patience of a saint

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 13

This is terrific

Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social · Jul 13

📜 New AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant? 🏛️

Part One of Three: Stories have had a moral for as long as we've had stories. So why is Aesop, enduringly, one of the few moralists we accept can dish it out?

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0lP7...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

7. AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant?

Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 13/07/2025 · 44m

podcasts.apple.com

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