Zoe Williams
@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social
Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now
I only listen to true crime and @alexpodyssey.bsky.social so the fact that this is the most gripping thing I've heard in ages says a lot open.spotify.com/episode/59VO...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I only listen to true crime and @alexpodyssey.bsky.social so the fact that this is the most gripping thing I've heard in ages says a lot open.spotify.com/episode/59VO...
If you read one Guardian comment piece today, obviously read Aditya's www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together | Aditya Chakrabortty
This is no single bloc marching under one ideology, or even a mass of ‘red-wall’ voters. What unites them is a desire for something different, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
If you read one Guardian comment piece today, obviously read Aditya's www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Late arriving fandom of... Chris Pattern. Please go back and listen to PM, he's fucking brilliant
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Late arriving fandom of... Chris Pattern. Please go back and listen to PM, he's fucking brilliant
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This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded.
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded.
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
And we need to pay attention.
The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7
Talked turkey with @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social, felt like things weren't so bad after all bsky.app/profile/quie...
💚 Zack to The Future ✊🏽
Guest @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social on the remarkable rise of @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the reinvention of hope.
+ Has 'Your Party' missed the boat?
+ How AI is degrading our information environment
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Guest @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social on the remarkable rise of @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the reinvention of hope.
+ Has 'Your Party' missed the boat?
+ How AI is degrading our information environment
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/04sJ...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Zack to The Future: The rise and rise of Zack Polanski
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 23/10/2025 · 1h 6m
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October 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Talked turkey with @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social, felt like things weren't so bad after all bsky.app/profile/quie...
My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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October 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Is it weird to do a potted history of Althusser without mentioning he murdered his wife, or am I just being super uptight and old school?
October 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Is it weird to do a potted history of Althusser without mentioning he murdered his wife, or am I just being super uptight and old school?
Many smart, sad lines in this Runciman piece www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... but my favourite is this
October 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Many smart, sad lines in this Runciman piece www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... but my favourite is this
@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)
October 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
@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)
@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)
October 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
@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)
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
October 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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
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?
October 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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?
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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October 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This is a huge loss in my culture www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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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October 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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...
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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October 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Grrr goddam humans, who need to break after season one to make season two, this is so good open.spotify.com/episode/67sR...
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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October 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I did not expect to feel this strongly about Celebrity Traitors www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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September 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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...
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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September 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This is good from Sadiq x.com/MayorofLondo...
September 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Reposted by Zoe Williams
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.
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.
September 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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.
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.
Who could possibly have foreseen?
September 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Who could possibly have foreseen?
Nearly started crying at this photo & I'm not even a Green. Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Nearly started crying at this photo & I'm not even a Green. Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social
my god, Philippe Sands has the patience of a saint
August 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
my god, Philippe Sands has the patience of a saint
This is terrific
📜 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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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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July 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is terrific
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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
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July 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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