Zoe Williams

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Zoe Williams

OccupationKnowledge managerVoting record Doesn’t have a party political preference, tends to focus on local issues – but mostly LabourAmuse bouche Is a huge football fan, and held a Charlton Athletic season ticket for 20 yearsOccupation A little bit of property developmentVoting record Normally Conservative; wouldn’t vote Reform, would deviate for the Lib Dems, particularly locallyAmuse bouche Started her own kindergarten, and later a daycare nursery business, to develop a Froebelian approach.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Zoe Williams

Liz Truss has unveiled her new chapter, and if you can think of a better place for the madcap-economist former prime minister to do so than a cryptocurrency conference in Bedford, it would at the very least have to involve pirates or chimpanzees. The “deep state”, “the elite” and the mainstream media cut short her time in office, so from here she sees no option but to launch her own social media platform.

1 week ago | msn.com | Zoe Williams

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1 week ago | theguardian.com | Zoe Williams

‘Perpetuating humanity should be a cross-politics consensus,” read an article in the Atlantic last week, “but the left was mostly absent at a recent pronatalism conference.” It’s such a simple proposition – everyone loves babies and wants the species to perpetuate, right? – but pronatalism has provoked a ferocious battle on the American left. Should they be trying to engage meaningfully at a preposterous far-right conference? Or should the left stop self-flagellating and start organising?

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Zoe Williams

I am broadly of the view that Katy Perry should do whatever she likes, and wear whatever she likes, and if she wants to be shot into space for no obvious purpose looking like one of Charlie’s Angels, then that falls squarely into those categories. So why am I so bothered by Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, which has just made a suborbital flight to the edge of space and back?