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Sarah Ditum

United Kingdom

Freelance Critic and Columnist at Freelance

Only posting links to work. Email or Insta for contact. Journalist, the Times. Author of TOXIC. Agent: @littlehardman [email protected]

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Articles

  • Nigel Farage’s cynical pronatalism

    5 days ago | unherd.com | Sarah Ditum

    benefitsMotherhoodNigel FaragePro-natalismSocietytwo-child benefit capUK Nigel Farage stands alone in British politics for his tenacity, his ruthlessness — and his sheer neck. Last week, in a speech outlining Reform’s prospectus for government, he committed the party to lifting the two-child cap on benefits.

  • Doing the hustle

    5 days ago | thecritic.co.uk | Sarah Ditum

    This article is taken from the June 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. Doing the hustleDon’t tell the bookers — I’d hate them to get the idea that I’m an easy get — but I love being a studio guest on live TV. The lights go up, the cameras roll, the adrenaline flows and, for five minutes or so, you’re relying on your wits to save you from national humiliation.

  • I'm asexual! I'm a fetishist! And you're a boring straight

    1 week ago | thetimes.com | Sarah Ditum

  • Elon Musk: mummy’s boy

    2 weeks ago | unherd.com | Sarah Ditum

    CultureErrol MuskMaye MuskTwitterUSx Elon Musk’s four months in the US government in the US government have been a wild ride. On the one hand, by his own standards, he’s a failure. Musk originally boasted that his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would cut $2 trillion from the federal budget; he now claims to have saved just $160 billion.

  • wax on, wax off (and repeat for 40 years)

    2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Sarah Ditum

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Sarah Ditum
Sarah Ditum @sarahditum
14 May 25

RT @sarahditum: You can't sanitise assisted suicide. Politicians should stop trying https://t.co/VwbjBVaKUz

Sarah Ditum
Sarah Ditum @sarahditum
14 May 25

You can't sanitise assisted suicide. Politicians should stop trying https://t.co/VwbjBVaKUz

Sarah Ditum
Sarah Ditum @sarahditum
10 May 25

It's nearly a quarter of a century since Rachel Cusk killed the myth of the maternal ideal; so why are women writers still surprised when motherhood is a tough gig? https://t.co/GI3aLcZFcX