Zoe Williams

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Zoe Williams

Parvien, LeicesterOccupationLitigation solicitorVoting record Usually votes ConservativeAmuse bouche Was shortlisted for a Legal Hero award, the only solicitor from outside the London area that yearKatie, LeicesterOccupation Associate professorVoting record Holds an Irish and a US passport, and votes wherever she can. Did not vote for “that man”, voted for Kamala.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Zoe Williams

When I was doing GCSEs and my sister was doing A-levels, we were on our way to school for my physics and her maths exams when we had a huge fight at the bus stop. I can’t remember what it was about, but she definitely started it. I took a different route and was 20 minutes late for my exam while she took the original bus and spent the first quarter of her paper getting asked by teachers if she knew where I was.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Zoe Williams

Reform politicians vie to say the most chilling thing – between Andrea Jenkyns’ promise to sack diversity officers who don’t exist, and party chair Zia Yusuf’s pledge to bring legal challenges against the use of hotels to house asylum seekers – and that, I accept with a heavy heart, will be the work of the next four years: finding an answer to this nastiness more convincing than Labour’s current plan of becoming more like them.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Zoe Williams

The royal family’s motto has been “never complain, never explain” for as long as anyone asking anything as tedious as a question can remember. Royal watchers trot it out as a devilish smart move by a public relations master-breed. They’ve cracked the code of how to retain their dignity, their mystery, their effortless superiority and, maybe in a fair wind, even divinity: simply never say anything. Personally, I always found it a bit of an impediment to having any feelings for them.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Zoe Williams |Sarah Gilbert

1985It’s swings and roundabouts being a titchy kid in football. David Beckham first played for Chingford-based youth team the Ridgeway Rovers, where he was coached by his dad, Ted. Back then, he didn’t make the England schoolboys squad because he wasn’t burly enough – his father subsequently employing the somewhat nauseating tactic of feeding his son Guinness with raw eggs to gain weight.