Judith Woods, The Telegraph Journalist Profile

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I'm sick of old people clich├ęs on TV

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Judith Woods

Only afterwards did we both realise it had been dreamed up by AI. It was both impressive and alarming. After all, what does it say about the creatives dominating the advertising sector when artificial intelligence has a clearer - and saliently, more creative - vision of the future than they do? Older people are quite rightly cavilling at being lazily written off as hopeless and socially isolated. And that needs to be reflected in commercials as well as in programming schedules.
Takeaway culture is out of control - when did we become so entitled and lazy?

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Judith Woods

I consider myself to be a law-abiding citizen. But sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe in, maybe even take up arms and defend yourself and those you love against an existential threat. The news that Deliveroo has launched its first drone delivery service in Dublin, so we can eventually all get even fatter and poorer without leaving the house, is just such a moment in time. Which is why I’m in the market for a high-energy laser weapon.
Takeaway culture is out of control

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Judith Woods
You can't call yourself a duchess then broadcast that video to the world

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Judith Woods

Cast your minds back and you may recall the ridiculous, huffy lengths the pair went to in order to keep the details of their son Archie's birth secret back in 2019. When we were finally informed she was in labour, it was a fib - Meghan had already given birth and was already home with her son. Weird doesn't begin to describe it.
How the Goves tried to keep up with the wealthier Camerons

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Judith Woods

Sarah Vine's highly charged new memoir has laid bare the fallout caused by the striking discrepancies between the political alliesWhen it comes to political memoirs, what price truth? By her own admission, Sarah Vine, the erstwhile wife of the erstwhile Tory big hitter Michael Gove, had absolutely nothing to lose when she penned her explosive new page turner, How Not to Be a Political Wife. But throughout it, lucre looms large. Money is famously the sinews of war.
Skinny is back in fashion

4 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Judith Woods
Allowing 70-year-olds to have a baby is appalling. Why don't we ever say no anymore?

4 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Judith Woods
'I feel like a stranger in my own town'

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Judith Woods

A sense of belonging appears to be waning in many parts of Britain - not least the diverse Birmingham suburb of ErdingtonA burly young man with blonde hair and an Eastern European accent is towering over me and yelling with incandescent rage. Expletives are raining down on to my upturned face. I am a f---ing fascist. I am twisting the f---ing truth. He hopes something f---ing awful happens to me.
'Liverpool's victory parade will be remembered as a memorial instead of a celebration'

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Judith Woods

With a football club's Premier League silverware forever tarnished by senseless tragedy, this is a city left palpably in shockThe footage posted online from Liverpool is at once appalling and scarcely believable. At first viewing it looks like a set-piece from a Bond film where a car ploughs into a crowd of screaming revellers and, as the bodies thump on to then roll off the bonnet, carnival turns to carnage. But this was no carefully-choreographed movie scene.
Welcome to the 2025 workplace, where sighing could count as discrimination

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Judith Woods

One of Britain’s biggest banks has ordered staff still cheekily working from home to turn up or face a cut in their pay. Actually, it’s a slice of their HSBC bonuses that will be affected, so it’s hard for the rest of us suckers to sympathise. Besides, they only need to get dressed and turn up three days a week, which is still a huge skive.