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Sep 21, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Charlotte Gill
Carbon footprint of R2D2 and lightsabers among issues examined in Open University research
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charlotte Gill
If a far right protest is rumoured but no one turns up, can it be counter-protested? Did you know that the UK defeated fascism on Wednesday? Blink and you might have missed it, but newspapers were swift to record The Battle of Britain, August 7, 2024 — history ready to be clipped and filed away, handed to the grandkids one day. “Night anti-hate marchers faced down the thugs”, ran The Daily Mail’s front page, The Times’ equivalent reading “Thousands take to street to confront far right”.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Martin Robinson |Andy Jehring |Charlotte Gill
Lauryn Goodman texted Annie Kilner shortly after Christmas Day to inform her that Kyle Walker was the father of her child, it can be reported for the first time today. Ms Kilner was six-months pregnant and home alone when Ms Goodman messaged her with the bombshell news on December 27 last year. ‘Hey it’s Lauryn I just wanted to quickly tell you that Kyle is the father of our daughter', the text sent to Annie said.
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May 23, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charlotte Gill
Boris Johnson is no lost Conservative hero — he did tremendous harm Following the recent disastrous set of election results for the Conservative party, a familiar question returned: “What if Boris had stayed as Prime Minister?” Last weekend, former Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi bemoaned the loss of Johnson, telling The Sunday Times that, other than Thatcher, he couldn’t “think of a more consequential prime minister of his generation.” Rishi Sunak’s announcement of the forthcoming election had some...
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charlotte Gill
London travel schemes are excluding the disabled and pro-diversity officials do not seem to care Although Sadiq Khan frequently likes to tell Londoners that the city is “open” and “diversity is our greatest strength”, this sentiment sadly doesn’t seem to extend to blind and disabled people in the capital.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Charlotte Gill
I was 33 when I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – better known as ADHD – and in many ways it came as a relief. It felt like someone had finally found a lost piece for an unfinished puzzle. Or cleaned a pair of dirty glasses so that, when pushed up to one’s eyes, the world around became wonderfully clear. Before this I had lots of stereotypes about ADHD that didn’t include me. Weren’t ADHD types annoying and hyper? The children of neurotic American parents?
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Dec 3, 2023 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charlotte Gill
Whilst watching a recent video of Angela Rayner interviewing Keir Starmer, a question occurred to me: what does it take to make someone “working class”? The Labour leader often uses this term to describe himself — reminding the electorate that his father was a “toolmaker”, as if anyone could have forgotten — and framing his life through Dickensian descriptions wherever possible. This exchange was no different.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charlotte Gill
Last week it was revealed that UK net migration hit a record high of 745,000 in 2022, having been previously underestimated by the Office for National Statistics to be 606,000. The usual suspects — the right wing commentariat and Conservative MPs — were up in arms about the data. There was a silence from the people who will be most affected by these figures, however. That is, from young Brits.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
inews.co.uk | Charlotte Gill
For almost 10 years, Adam Heard, 34, and his wife, Laura, 35, have rented the same property in Keynsham, a rural market town near Bristol. They had, Adam thought, “a reasonable relationship” with their landlord. That’s until one day in June this year, when the landlord called Adam up to say his mortgage was coming to an end. He wanted to sell the house this December. There was a silver lining to the news, though: the landlord offered Adam and Laura first refusal on the property.
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Nov 19, 2023 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Charlotte Gill
For weeks, London has been subjected to pro-Palestine “peace marches” — so peaceful, in fact, that footage emerged of a protester calling for “death to all Jews”. On 11 November, Tommy Robinson and his supporters turned up looking for a fight, and chaos ensued. Naturally a post-mortem followed, led by the usual establishment suspects. Someone had to be blamed for the carnage, and who else but Suella Braverman, the now ousted Home Secretary.
