Zoe Williams

Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist

• Madonna in sequinned top

  Vagina lasers, bananas and an awkward Cumberbatch: 10 surprising moments in Madonna’s new video

• Breel Embolo in Switzerland team hoodie, with photographers and TV cameras behind him

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

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• A group of women crowded around a smartphone. They are laughing and smiling. One is holding her hand to her mouth

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

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• Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana at The World Transformed conference in Hulme, Manchester, 10 October 2025.

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

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• ‘I would draw blood’: Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker’s wild wrongcom about sexual betrayal

• I bullied a barber into cutting my fringe. It was a terrible mistake

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• Midwives want to make childbirth miraculous – so what went so wrong in Nottingham?

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• Martyn and Alan chatting across a restaurant table

  Dining across the divide

  Dining across the divide: ‘On the climate, he liked a graph. I’m a little more: show me the evidence’

• An older woman stands with headphones at the DJ console and plays music and dances.

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

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• A woman in a bright red balaclava, with holes cut out for eyes and mouth, holds up her yellow phone

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

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• Writer Jilly Cooper sits at a desk with a typewriter, papers, and a mug in a book-lined room.

  Ranked

  From racy riders to romantic rivals: Jilly Cooper’s best books – ranked!

• ‘We needed a Hitler who really vibed with the dog’: meet Lexie, the world’s first cinemadographer

• All this talk about ‘difficult’ cuts, yet the largest part of Britain’s welfare bill is never mentioned. Why?

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• There is no state more impotent than being a parent of a teenager doing A-levels

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• It’s byelection bingo! Get ready for the Brexit arguments you heard 10 years ago, only louder

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• ‘Oh my God, did my dad and I fight’: Olivia Colman on triggers, trans rights and sexual regret

• The Filter

  Fame, fantasy ... and fish? Celebrity drinks put to the test

• I gave up coffee and acquired a Pro Plus habit – now I have the energy of a 15-year-old

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• Hot divorcee summer: get ready for big hats, hot sex and don’t-care energy

• Does it seem as if almost anyone could be Britain’s next prime minister? Blame David Cameron

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