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Pens at the ready! A gen-Z trainee takes on the Guardian’s ‘scribbler-in-chief’

As the exam regulator consults about introducing onscreen exams amid complaints of hand fatigue, a young aspiring journalist goes head-to-head with a self-professed expert

The Guardian - UK

Dr Zoe Williams reveals the difference between cold vs flu as cases of 'serious' strain rise

The doctor shared how to work out the difference between this new strain of flu vs colds that are common every winter

Woman & Home

An EU-UK mobility scheme won’t erase the ‘violent indifference’ against young people. But it’s a start

We need people from Europe to move to the UK – but also a way to give Brits the opportunity to build the futures they crave, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Could a drug for narcolepsy change the world?

There are apparently breakthroughs on the way for those with sleep disorders – which sent me down a rabbit hole of research, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Austerity is in the air again – from ‘overdiagnosis’ to the benefits bill. Here is what’s at stake

A mindblowing new show reveals the human cost when the political system turns against the people, putting stories and faces to the hundreds of thousands of citizens thought to have died due to austerity, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Here’s why we can’t get rid of ‘mansplaining’

Letter: Dr Amanda Nimon Peters responds to an article by Zoe Williams in which she said we should stop using the term

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Why did I ever buy my kids refillable advent calendars?

Twenty-four tiny drawers of fun stuff sounds delightful – but not when you’re the one filling the thing, writes Zoe Williams

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‘Mansplaining’ was once a contender for word of the year. Here’s why we should stop using it

‘Rage bait’ is Oxford word of the year in 2025. But I think we should be able to decommission words that have brought more trouble than they’re worth, starting with the 2015 runner-up, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

What Chicago’s fight against ICE can teach us all about how to resist oppression

A harrowing US podcast documents a community’s struggle against immigration raids – and warns us about herd mentality, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

I went to an M&S opening and it was mobbed. Why are people so weird about shops?

I thought it would just be big news for me but I had reckoned without the TikTok generation, mums staring at the premixed cocktails and the yoga-mat brigade stalking every aisle, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Dr Zoe Williams issues warning about the 'biggest risks' to health this winter as 'prevention is better than cure'

We know that health risks increase in winter, and it's not just falls and getting cold we need to worry about, Dr Zoe Williams says

Woman & Home

It was my late mother’s birthday – and I spent it exactly as she would have wanted

I worried about nuclear war throughout my childhood, partly because it was the 80s, and partly because we were always demonstrating against it. On this important day, I knew where I needed to be, writes Zoe Williams

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Is Shabana Mahmood’s plan to seize the jewels of asylum seekers a joke?

The home secretary’s idea makes her sound so much like a cartoon villain that I initially assumed it couldn’t be true, writes Zoe Williams

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I keep trying to name storms. Why does the Met Office turn down my suggestions?

‘Wubbo’ has made it on to the list and so has ‘Dave’, but although I’ve tried a hundred times, including my kids’ names, I’ve had absolutely no luck, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

New face, same problems: replacing Keir Starmer with Wes Streeting will do nothing to help Labour

Both share a fixation with process over project and have an absence of values, which can only result in a trail of broken promises, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Arguing about whether or not to wear a poppy misses the most crucial point

David Lammy being caught without a poppy sparked a national debate. But there are many ways to honour the fallen, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Millennial dating involves a lot of sexy moves – so why does it so rarely lead to sex?

Modern courtship entails a complex set of escalations, from texts to voice notes to photos, before everything fizzles out. Give me gen X messiness any day, writes Zoe Williams

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This is how many cups of coffee you can safely drink in a day

How much coffee is too much coffee?

The Guardian - UK

Why the anger with Billie Eilish? Because it’s against the rules to say what we all know about billionaires

The singer is giving away millions – but the parameters for criticising the super-rich are very narrow, and hardly anyone qualifies, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Applying for benefits is anxiety-inducing – and the weird language makes it much worse

The staff are really helpful, but stark warnings, unnecessary cliffhangers and demonising language in the application forms all add up to unnecessary stress, writes Zoe Williams

The Independent UK

Dr Zoe Williams and nutritionist Hannah Alderson on the ‘hormone balancing’ boom

We hear the term “hormone balancing” day in, day out, Instagram is awash with hormone balancing coaches and we’re constantly seeing products that claim to reinstate hormonal balance. But given that hormones are always in flux – due to the nature of them being hormones – what does the term…

The Guardian - UK

Want to go to a UK university? Don’t ask me to help you write your personal statement

How do you impress admissions tutors? Apparently not by waffling on about babysitting experience, or a love of crochet, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

How the free speech debate stops us from stating the bleeding obvious

The Sarah Pochin controversy has ignited another row over how nasty people are allowed to be before they get ‘cancelled’. It’s an insidious distraction, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Farage has 1.3m followers on TikTok. Does this mean gen Z likes him?

He is the most popular UK politician on one of the world’s most popular social media sites. Working out what that means is actually surprisingly difficult, writes Zoe Williams

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