Zoe Williams

It will surprise no one that Your Party has split. Why can’t the left stick together? | Zoe Williams

Talk of witch-hunts and personality clashes was very publicly aired, when all we wanted to know was what the party actually stood forLast weekend, Your Party officially split, with 250 members voting to start a second leftwing party, the Socialist Federation. Neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Zarah Sultana represent this new faction, with both remaining in Your Party. While many of those members are part of “Grassroots Left”, Sultana’s faction of Your Party, she has no role in the new party, and is...

It will surprise no one that Your Party has split. Why can’t the left stick together? | Zoe Williams

Talk of witch-hunts and personality clashes was very publicly aired, when all we wanted to know was what the party actually stood forLast weekend, Your Party officially split, with 250 members voting to start a second leftwing party, the Socialist Federation. Neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Zarah Sultana represent this new faction, with both remaining in Your Party. While many of those members are part of “Grassroots Left”, Sultana’s faction of Your Party, she has no role in the new party, and is...

I’m trying to pick the best party tunes since 1966. Why are all the real bangers from 1989? | Zoe Williams

I bullied a barber into cutting my fringe. It was a terrible mistake | Zoe Williams

The face looking back at me in the mirror is familiar – because it is my father’s. It’s all my own faultOn a day as hot as hell last week, the only thing I had left to take off without causing offence was my fringe. So I went into a barber and asked him to do me this simple favour, and he said, “Not really – barbers are for men,” and I said that was a risk I was prepared to take, and he said, “Men’s hair and women’s hair are completely different,” and I said, “That cannot be true – it...

The World Cup is shedding new light on the pathology of the Trump regime | Zoe Williams

Players and fans denied visas, the spectre of ICE raids on stadiums, Pete Hegseth’s latest speech ... By the end of this contest, the nature of this US government will be even clearerWhenever my kids and I are stationary in the same room, within five minutes they will have started talking about football.

I have found the perfect book group – we discuss problematic text messages | Zoe Williams

My friends and I were keen to meet regularly, but couldn’t agree on what to read. Then we found an excellent solutionThere comes a point in every friendship ecosystem when someone suggests starting a book group. It’s a beautiful moment, the platonic modern equivalent of the 1950s “shall we go steady?”

Midwives want to make childbirth miraculous – so what went so wrong in Nottingham? | Zoe Williams

The acronym ‘FOH’ for ‘Fuck off home’ was used beside the names of expectant mothers. Senior midwives advised others not to be ‘too kind’. But as this and other shocking evidence is brought to light, sexism is only one part of the storyIt’s said to be mother nature’s stunning con trick, the single most helpful move in the propagation of the species – that childbirth might be the worst thing ever to happen to anyone, but once you are through it, you instantly forget how painful it was.

Oppressing women is how authoritarianism begins. So listen to what Reform is saying | Zoe Williams

Midwives want to make childbirth miraculous – so what went so wrong in Nottingham? | Zoe Williams

The acronym ‘FOH’ for ‘Fuck off home’ was used beside the names of expectant mothers. Senior midwives advised others not to be ‘too kind’. But as this and other shocking evidence is brought to light, sexism is only one part of the storyIt’s said to be mother nature’s stunning con trick, the single most helpful move in the propagation of the species – that childbirth might be the worst thing ever to happen to anyone, but once you are through it, you instantly forget how painful it was.

Factors leading to failures in NHS maternity care | Letters

Readers respond to an article on the serious failings at the Nottingham university hospitals trustI am writing as someone who has been personally affected by failings in maternity services at Nottingham university hospitals NHS trust. Zoe Williams (Midwives want to make childbirth miraculous – so what went so wrong in Nottingham?, 1 June) correctly acknowledges the affect of austerity on maternity services (I can attest to that, having worked in the public sector), but it in no way...