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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

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>

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 19d

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...

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 24d

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

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Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 24d

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?

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

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

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 9

Helpful information here on how to talk: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The new rules of small talk: how to nail every conversation, from first dates to weddings, parties and funerals

Dull questions, awkward silences, excruciating gaffes: socialising can be a minefield. Here’s how to avoid disaster – and even enjoy yourself

www.theguardian.com

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 3

I really disagree: I think if you come in and a progressive party and then destroy living standards for the poorest, you're the one who ushers in the far right.

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 3

Sad to hear Starmer cite changing the Labour Party as one of his major achievements. Sure, it's changed, in so far as everyone in it feels alienated and drained of hope but it's not very classy to brag about that.

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · Jun 24

These people made me glad to be alive www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Inside the No Space for Bezos movement: ‘One man rents a city for three days? That’s obscene’

The Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, is about to descend on Venice with his fiancee, some ex-Marines and his limitless credit card. We meet the Italian activists who are saying: enough

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · Jun 24

She actually won an amazing award in New York in February, v intellectual, can't remember what it's called tho

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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · Jun 24

Absolutely unarguable statement in Nesrine Malik's devastating piece www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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