Zoe Williams

Profile: Full name: Zoe Williams Area of interest: Society, culture, politics Journals/Organisation: The Guardian Email: mszoewilliams@yahoo.co.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/zoewilliams Blog: Representation: Networks:

Biography: About: http://www.clivejames.com/articles/zoe-williams - CliveJames.com biography Education: Lincoln College, Oxford: Modern History Career: Previously wrote on entertainmant for the London Evening Standard Current position/role: The Guardian: Columnist and feature writer and interviewer (as well as her regular Wednesday column she writes the 'Ant-natal' column and 'Radio Head' column on a Friday, and also contributes occasional comment and features in the Food & Drink and Fashion & Beauty sections) also writes/has written for: New Statesman, Marie Claire, Now Magazine, First, Radio Times, Grazia Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Supporter of the British Humanist Association (Wiki info) Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Write Words.org: Zoe Williams Interview July 2006 Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: To truly understand what the point is of Melanie Phillips (discussing Melanie Phillips' appearance on BBC Radio 4's The moral maze), The Guardian, 26th October 2007 The readers' editor on... how we might have gained Boris a few extra votes - Siobhain Butterworth, The Guardian, 12th May 2008 (response to some reader complaints about article on Boris Johnson on the day of the London Mayoral election), 2008 Awards/Honours: Nominated for Journalist of the Year in the Stonewall Awards, 2007 Scoops: Other:

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The Guardian: Column name: Remit/Info: Observations on modern culture, society and politics from a 'humanist' standpoint Section: Comment & debate Role: Columnist Pen-name: Email: mszoewilliams@yahoo.co.uk Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/zoewilliams Commissioning editor: Day published: Wednesday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Average length: also contributes to shortcuts on "people, issues or curiosities setting the news agenda"

Articles: 2012 What's the point of social mobility? It still leaves some in the gutter - Nick Clegg's desire to fast-stream clever kids out of deprivation leaving the rest facing shabby prospects is hardly communism - 24th May So now we know whose fault the recession is. Ours - It's an egregious Tory narrative that blames the crisis on our individual 'debt-bingeing' while ignoring the true culprits - 17th May Parental leave is good for growth. And that includes fathers - The sense of parental leave is self-evident, yet we continue to discuss it in ever-decreasing circles - 10th May Markets can't magic up good teachers. Nor can bonuses - Monetising incentives in education in the name of social mobility assumes everything improves with a price on it. But it doesn't - 3rd May You can't stop divorce, even if you are a family court judge - Sir Paul Coleridge is campaigning to save marriage, but he only sees the unions that end in court - 1st May So you think the fight for the NHS is over? Wrong - Yes, the act's passed. But most staff were against the marketisation of the health service, and they're still out there running it - 26th April On fracking and wind we are having the wrong debates - Discussion of climate change and the wider public interest has been jettisoned in the rush to lobby against alternatives - 19th April Cuts are a coalition catechism. When will the left challenge it? - Labour must develop a coherent anti-austerity storyline. Modern politics is about creating a narrative and making it stick - 12th April In this leaking frenzy, don't take scandals at face value - The budget, the NHS risk register, the riots report – the coalition seems badly news-managed. Or is all this noise a smokescreen? - 29th March Ripping off young interns is routine, but it's still wrong - The Queen pays her interns, Keith Vaz does not – there is no political predictability about who will fleece new graduates - 22nd March Drug users might give up if the warnings were plausible - The Guardian survey reveals that many people take drugs without suffering, but they are interested in evidence - 15th March As feminists, united we fall apart – divided we may yet succeed - My International Women's Day thought? We should act more like a football team and less like synchronised swimmers - 8th March On capitalism we lefties are clueless – it's not just a rightwing caricature - Emma Harrison and her ilk are free to reap the benefits of our shame at being smart with money and investment - 1st March This Coriolanus-style fight to be London's mayor does nothing for politics - A vote for the London mayor could be between the true left and the true right. But they'd rather squabble over our wallets - 23rd February False optimism alone won't find jobs - With a deficit of two million vacancies, no amount of Work Programme intervention is likely to fill the jobs gap - 16th February Ignore the soporific jargon. Privatisation is a race to the bottom - The outsourcing of state services always leads to workers being paid less. Instead our leaders call it an 'efficiency saving' - 9th February Goodwin's disgrace may not feel great but it's a good place to start - If it's the beginning of accountability, it's worth it - 2nd February Fred Goodwin's disgrace may not feel great but it's a good place to start - Of course the stripping of Goodwin's knighthood leaves a hangover, but if it's the beginning of accountability, it's worth it - 2nd February Who do we fear more – the dogs or their owners? - Scaremongering about pets being used as weapons is displaced prejudice against (usually) young men with staffs and bull terriers - 26th January Who pays the Tesco CEO's wages of £6.9m a year? We do - When low supermarket wages are supplemented by state benefits, it allows obscene profits to be made at taxpayers' expense - 19th January Migration caps aren't about protecting British workers - Reduce net migration if you must, but don't expect it to improve the lot of the lowest skilled and lowest paid - 12th January What Ed Miliband needs to do now: panel verdict - The panel: How can Ed Miliband convince voters he's not directionless, as Maurice Glasman suggests? Our panel has a few ideas - 6th January Labour has been hiding behind child poverty for far too long - In this harshly political age the left has to stop using child poverty as a way of avoiding a debate on income redistribution - 5th January

Articles: 2011 Disability assessment may be a farce, but it's not French - There's no point blaming foreigners for the failure of our government's procurement policies. Profit is the real problem - 29th December Does the stolen Barbara Hepworth show that caring makes us weak? -The stolen sculpture raises the fear that 1,000 people who want a good society are no match for one person who doesn't care - 22nd December Obesity is about poverty and cheap food, not a lack of moral fibre - It's more palatable to blame diabetes on lifestyle than accept the fact that on a penny-per-calorie basis, a Big Mac is simply cheaper - 15th December No alternative to cutting disabled and ill people's benefits. Really? - Targeting people with terminal illness might be so awful as to be a tactical manoeuvre. It's hard for campaigners to tell - 8th December Processed pork – the taste that dare not speak its name - It's pink gunk so cheap it doesn't even have an anatomical name, but processed pork is beyond delicious - 3rd December Hoarding for the apocalypse? I really wouldn't blame you - It takes more than an autumn statement to make me panic. But with an inept George Osborne in charge, I may start soon - 1st November First rule of being a minister: never take the blame for cuts - Faced with an onslaught of experts, the tactics are clear – skew the figures, dangle red herrings, and let Lib Dems take the flak - 24th November Jobs are a feminist issue. So are legal aid, tax and pensions - Women are hardest hit by the coalition's austerity drive. When policy leads to poverty, we all have a duty to fight back - 17th November Women-hating is all over the internet – believe me, I know - We need to engage with these misogynist bullies, not ban them - 10th November Don't blame the young when the jobs have vanished - Gove's proselytising about 'mastering your destiny' is absurd advice to school leavers whose chances have been scuppered - 3rd November Instead of harrying migrants and the elderly, why not just build homes? - All suggestions to solve Britain's major housing crisis seem to have significant, even terrifying, downsides. Except one - 27th October Expenses for egg donors, or profit? Depends on whether you have ovaries - Egg donation is not like getting gum balls out of a slot machine. Reasonable compensation could be 10 times the £750 on offer - 20th October The Lords failed to go rogue on the NHS. But they might - Although peers didn't vote to derail the bill their response did offer a show of teeth – unlike the small game-hunting Commons - 13th October People like Rory Weal can't be leftwing on planet Mail - The Mail's treatment of Rory Weal is cunning, perpetuating the idea that money rules you out of the social justice debate - 28th September You can't have hypersexed, drunk adults and sweet kids - Talk of shielding children from alcohol advertising and sexualisation is a diversion from tackling the problems themselves - 22nd September Is it lefty to ask why our tax pays private CEOs millions? - Westminster's faith in the efficiency of firms taking over public services has led to vast rewards for a few at the cost of the rest - 15th September Are the parents really to blame? Q&A with Zoe Williams - The Guardian writer debates the riots and how children are brought up with readers from 12 noon on Monday - 12th September Evicted from Labour: any sense of justice for tenants - It's not just Tory councils abdicating basic duties as landlords. Being related to a rioter is now seen as a crime on the left too - 8th September Marie Stopes: a turbo-Darwinist ranter, but right about birth control - Her views were never the influential thing about her: it was in her clinic that her real social impact was taking hold - 3rd September Abortion advice from Nadine Dorries is classic backstreet politics - The campaign to put abortion counselling in the hands of faith-based groups is grubby and mendacious - 1st September Tough luck for the luckless caught up in the riot crackdown - When sentencing rules are changed in a rush, it's not only the scofflaws who suffer before the courts - 25th August UK riots: This vigilantism is the very embodiment of 'big society' - Folk taking to the streets with doner knives is what happens if communities are encouraged to fill in the gaps left by the state - 11th August The UK riots: the psychology of looting - The shocking acts of looting may not be political, but they nevertheless say something about the beaten-down lives of the rioters - 10th August Kicking charities while Serco profits isn't a plan with legs - For all the 'big society' talk, philanthrocapitalism often looks a lot more like capitalism than it does philanthropy - 4th August Strauss-Kahn is accused, but it's the maid's word on trial - The presumption of innocence is extended to defendants but any past infraction can be used to torpedo Diallo's credibility - 27th July Why make paupers and foreigners fight over a crust? - Maurice Glasman would ban immigration to drive wages up. But it can't be 'banned', and there are better ways to raise wages - 21st July Sorry, minister: you can't cut away and be family friendly - A few coalition initiatives to promote family life pale against falling wages and benefits, rising costs and services being axed - 14th July Hey David Beckham, I called my daughter Harper first - Until yesterday, my daughter had a name with a literary resonance. But Harper Beckham has changed all that - 12th July Living alone is pricey, but all households have their cost - Status has come before preference for too long: those who'd prefer to live solo or communally are pushed into pairing off - 7th July Can a feminist rejoice in the likes of Beyoncé or Lagarde? - Powerful women help society muddle towards equality – even if the R&B star is marriage-fixated and the IMF chief is a neoliberal - 30th June So we can't afford legal aid? Look at the costs without it - Social justice in Britain is expensive – and yes, we need to save money. But the cuts in this bill will end up costing a fortune - 23rd June Bridesmaids: how a chick flick won over a feminist - I don't care that Bridesmaids features bridesmaids, nor that it is ultimately uncritical of the American nuptial hyper-consumption - 19th June This game of British Bulldog feels like the Thatcher era - The possibility of strikes in the public sector has seen the old tropes of left and right re-emerge with stunning speed and force - 16th June Be a real titan philanthropist – and close your hedge fund - At the Ark Gala Ball an obscenely rich clique will raise millions for charity: hardly compensation for the inequality they create - 9th June Are gossip culture's victims the celebs – or the gossipers? - The obsession with celebrities has normalised their self-absorption. It's surely no coincidence that narcissism is on the rise - 2nd June In this twisted 'big society' it has become harder to help - Charity workers helping those in need could soon qualify as being in need themselves - 26th May Cuts? I smell a rat. Let's start denying this deficit properly - Canada's 90s 'bloodbath budget' was held up as a model by Tories. But the parallel is a false one, and the war on debt phoney - 19th May The reason mothers work – and Tories try to stop them - Benefit cuts, childcare costs and marriage tax breaks are forcing families back into a single breadwinner model - 12th May Now Princess Di and Osama bin Laden have so much in common - The US might finally have nailed Bin Laden, but can't kill off our love of a good old conspiracy theory - 5th May The Tesco riot is no surprise given people's powerlessness - Planning law is so loaded against local communities fighting supermarkets, it's amazing Bristol-style disturbances are so rare - 28th April Now the maths is in, it's clear: tuition fees don't add up - Either the coalition didn't do the numbers properly or its policy was designed to drag university access back to postwar levels - 21st April Want people to cough up for charity? Put on some Lycra - It would be unthinkable to simply ask friends to donate to a good cause. But modesty evaporates in the London Marathon - 14th April This bauble of an immigration cap should be sent back home - The coalition may gain a shortlived uplift from this sop to the right, but where's the data on its likely economic effect? - 7th April Ed Miliband, do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded vote-winner? - It could be a political ploy, or maybe Ed Miliband has given into the pressures that assail unmarried parents - 31st March This 'neutral' budget's first principle is to attack equality - Osborne's measures aren't overtly sexist, regionalist, or classist, but the subtext is taking from the poorest to mollify the middle - 24th March This policy on child support is worthy of a budget airline - Charging single parents for using the Child Support Agency is twisted logic. Why should the victims pay? - 17th March It's the tests that deceive, not the people claiming benefits - Mental illness fluctuates. A one-off assessment of fitness to work is not only inadequate, it's making people's conditions worse - 10th March When it comes to car insurers scamming us, men and women are all equal - Despite the vexatious spectacle of feminism apparently backfiring, it's good to see an insurance sales ruse get the boot - 3rd March So was the 'safe' NHS a Tory lie, or are they just clueless? - David Cameron's claims may well be sincerely meant. His government seems to have no idea what effect it actually has - 24th February Abortion is quietly shoved off the agenda again - The high court has quashed a practical way to protect women in need of an early termination. Ideology has trumped clinical need - 17th February 2011 All Iain Duncan Smith's rot about marriage disguises a tired old taboo - The guff Duncan Smith talks about commitment shows what really drives him: painting cohabiting couples as an aberration - 10th February Paternity can be uncertain. But checking it is surely odd - Boots will not normalise DNA testing – the trust that keeps couples together makes most investigations obsolete - 3rd February Penalised as you earn: PAYE for those who make peanuts - Market values in the tax system mean people get help in proportion to the business they bring in, not the help they need - 27th January This government talks about empathy while cutting the cuddles already there - Graham Allen's early years report makes the loathsome leap that the poor are worse at parenting while failing to see why that may be - 20th January No wonder women are depressed – just look at the case of Miriam O'Reilly - Given the prejudice and drop in status we can expect as we grow older, widespread distress looks a rational response - 13th January The gym is a genius con we should be ashamed to fall for - This dressing up of vanity in the sackcloth of good health obscures the basic fact that exercise won't make us thin – just hungry - 6th January

Articles: 2010 Rejoice at Elton's news. And that homophobia is dying - Those who deride the Furnish-Johns on their baby because of age and lifestyle are outnumbered by those who don't - 30th December Kate Hoey: loved by her constituents, hated by foxes - There is still a pervasive loyalty towards good MPs who aren't on the make, who have done a good job for a long time - 23rd December I deserve it because I want it the most. Come on, Sugar! - It's absurd that desire is so trumpeted over ability as a criterion for success, but even The Apprentice boss has fallen for the idea - 22nd December Yes, prisons work. No, I am not a Michael Howard clone - Imprisonment divides conservatives like Michael Howard and Kenneth Clarke. But few get that success is about rehab, not punishment - 16th December Infertile? Then join the ranks of the undeserving ill - The distress it treats is real and pressing. But all round the country IVF is being relegated to the level of tattoo removal - 9th December Hutton's fair pay review won't make any CEO's pips squeak - The idea that balanced public sector salaries will inspire FTSE 100 chiefs to follow suit is as likely as a doughnut-eating shark - 2nd December Gove's missed the obvious target for reform – Ofsted - The inspectorate's disdain for teachers is shaping policy. But those in the classroom believe those who can't teach, inspect - 25th November With his engagement to Kate Middleton, the furnace of Prince William's divine right has been put out - Hats off to royal William and commoner Kate. Their wedding will be a nail in the coffin of an obnoxious hierarchy - 18th November Jargon is spreading like nits in the coalition's playground - In David Cameron's brave new horizon-shifting world, targets are milestones and euphemism is policy. The West Wing it isn't - 11th November Let prisoners vote, to remind politicians they are human - Universal suffrage should mean just that. And as a community, inmates should not be excluded from civic responsibility - 4th November Drinking alcohol is not a crime, even for prisoners on parole - It might be persuasive for drivers in South Dakota – but breath-testing to stop violence in London is a non-starter - 28th October This talk of 'benefit cheats' is not only stigmatising, it is slanderous, too - The cost of government error dwarfs that of public fraud – surely HMRC's top priority must be to get its sums right - 21st October Why has the Chilean miners' rescue left me this euphoric? - The feverish media coverage and product placement should jar. But there it is – a flash of global joy - 14th October Politics has changed but our urge to protest is undimmed - Demonstrations may not achieve much, but from the Iraq war to the G20, taking to the streets has an inimitable energy - 6th October These perfect Facebook nerds did start a revolution – in advertising - Funny thing about Mark Zuckerberg's radical buddies and their purity of purpose: they sure have generated a lot of money - 30th September It's wealth, not brains, that makes divorce so poisonous - It is not 'intelligent' couples who prolong separations, as a judge has claimed, but the adverserial family courts - 23rd September So special needs is a con, is it? It's not a very clever one - Special needs does not open a treasure chest to school funding - 16th September Selling sex is bad. But a few A-levels don't make it worse - From Jennifer Thompson to Belle de Jour, attitudes about breeding and education have polluted the prostitution debate - 9th September Wishful thinking won't bring equality for disabled people - Many Britons believe the battle's been won. But the defeat of prejudice takes effort and doesn't move in a simple direction - 2nd September If sex with HIV is a crime, so is swimming with verrucas - A trial like that of German pop star Nadja Benaissa could happen here: the law isn't about public health, but pillorying promiscuity - 19th August Government adverts don't deserve public money - From Protect and Survive to Heroin Screws You Up, these blame-shifting slogans only cover up policy failures - 12th August Strikes are worth having, regardless of the outcome - Industrial action cannot be dismissed as 'old politics' – it keeps the mechanics and the muscle of conflict alive - 5th August After the burning, a raft of IVF horror stories to come - The abolition of the HFEA will leave a major policy vacuum in biotech ethics. Without intervention, it'll be filled by the Daily Mail - 29th July Leave Enid Blyton's potboilers alone - In expunging dated words, you strip out a book's personality – although perhaps some of the characters' names could go - 24th July How petty-minded will this coalition be? Here is the test - Child trust funds helped some of the poorest save. Scrapping their whole infrastructure would be an act of hooliganism - 22nd July Here's a suggestion: log off and write to your MP instead - Finding useful ideas on the Treasury's feedback website is like extracting oil from sand. There are better ways to have a say - 15th July Support the Tories? That's a steep price for an internship - Unpaid work is supposed to be about students with vim and big ideas, not an industrial finishing school for the privileged - 8th July Prison costs more than Eton, does it? Perhaps some of them are better, too - Clarke's thesis of penal reform is flawed: the data is skewed, and there's no reference to or respect for the work of the service - 1st July Dr Lansley's prescription can only induce more perversity - Treating the NHS as if it were BP or JP Morgan is a surefire way of producing daft behaviour from sensible people - 10th June Tax avoidance? Sorry, you are far too poor to qualify - Wouldn't it be lovely if HMRC's overpayers and underpayers balanced each other? Sadly, errors always favour the rich - 3rd June Over-40 women, you've given birth to a healthy facet of modern life - To present older mothers as a social problem is savagely annoying. Quite simply, there is no best age to be pregnant - 27th May Of course we love a medical scare. But it's got to ring true - Bogus headlines about phones giving you cancer are naff. If we're going to panic let's do it well, and keep disbelief suspended - 20th May Feast and famine - As the world is hit by a food crisis, the markets see nothing immoral in skimming off a profit - 13th May Exposed underwear does not reveal sociopathic intent - Even Obama has vilified the low-slung trouser wearer. It's open season on young chaps with idiosyncratic apparel - 6th May On equal pay, sisters with solicitors must do it for themselves - The Birmingham case shows just how much Labour and the unions have let women down- 29th April Do mention the war - The British nostalgia movement holds that any contemporary event can benefit from a WWII allusion - 21st April The great flu conspiracy - The idea of Big Pharma duping the WHO over swine flu is thrilling. The reality is more prosaic - 8th April Politicians' remedies for poor children are bizarre and dishonest - Michael Gove's Saturday schools brainwave is just the latest example of a politician keen to talk poverty but dodge reality - 1st April Perplexed by prenups? Then try a tightwads' partnership - So another super-rich couple is tormented by marriage law. But my idea might spare the poor darlings all this anguish - 25th March Kate Winslet's breakup isn't part of broken society, is it? - Instead of wheeling out spouses and obsessing over stable relationships, politicians should take note: to split is human - 18th March These dogs are fashion victims - For a well-adjusted pet, status dogs who hang out with teenagers beat nutty, Saturday-only labradors hands down - 11th March We don't execute killers, but demand a death-penalty-lite - For all the arguments on rehabilitation, the cases of Venables and Sutcliffe show we expect the state to take a life, somehow - 4th March This homeopathy row has nothing to do with placebos - Americans get heated about guns and abortion. Here, proselytisers build their identity on the efficacy of sugar pills - 25th February Never mind the data. Teen parents simply must be bad - At last, a cross-party consensus. It's just a shame that it rests on such snobbery and sloppy use of statistics -18th February The real benefit cheats? The Stasi ranks of Hard Labour - The supergrass wheeze is just another example of coarse, wilfully ignorant rabble-rousing from the top ranks of government - 11th February Hey, all of a sudden older people are sexy. It must be election time again - The politicisation of child-rearing and gender issues only points up the establishment's habitual neglect of grey voters - 4th February Labour's greatest legacy? We're all Conservatives now - The latest social attitudes survey shows how New Labour's fabled meritocratic society has eroded our sympathy for the poor - 28th January Who next for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? - At 34, Angelina Jolie is well into Mr He'll Do territory - 26th January Memo to medics: it's about emotions as well as tumours - The latest dust-up among breast cancer experts shines a light into the grey areas of the NHS's screening programme - 21st January If it turns out the Neanderthals weren't numbskulls, who can we look down on? - Archaeology is exploding the comforting myths and yardsticks against which we measure our supposed progress - 14th January I'm all for privacy. But I don't want to seem like a Luddite - Fancy a virtual strip search in the cause of security? Well, no one wants to appear cranky and old-fashioned - 7th January

Articles: 2009 Leave families to nag in peace - Boomerang children can sleep soundly. When it comes to meddling, Whitehall hasn't a clue - 31st December Are we still in the thick of it? - Our understanding of the media has moved on a lot since the US broadcast its first election debate in 1960 - 24th December Let's be honest: we are using fat kids as a political decoy - All these strategies about children's health boil down to one thing: harmony between state and commercial sectors - 17th December Why, Tiger? Why, bankers? Why? Because they can - In celebrity as in finance, where opportunity is constant, morality is constantly tested. But only one injures us all - 10th December Conkers, goggles, elf'n'safety? You really could make it up - In signing up to the great health and safety outrage brigade, Cameron is tutting with the dim and winking at the savvy - 3rd December Sure, they can take my name. But it will be in vain - It is depressing when a company attaches our traits to a prosaic product – I don't, though, expect the Renault Zoe to boom - 26th November Yes, Clapham Junction is that bad. The sun shone, but the roof still leaks - The wave of affluence has not touched this poor old station. It stands as a shabby testament to the failings of the third way - 19th November After all, who would search a Guardian for cheese? - Assumptions about class and honesty go a lot further than the aisles of Waitrose: a whole justice system has been warped - 12th November Mandelson is playing the altruistic antelope on universities - Mandelson's vision of the universities of the future looks like old-fashioned spin – to divert attention from the really big issue - 5th November My toddler watches whatever he likes - My two-year-old can watch as much TV as he likes – and I honestly don't care - 14th October Did you fall for Swaddles organic swindle? - This week, Neil Stansfield was found guilty of selling food falsely labelled as organic. So what lesson should the consumer take from this? Simple – stop buying it - 26th September With these laws, Ortega has betrayed the women who fought for democracy - Nicaragua's abortion ban was a cynical move in a feverish election by a president desperate to pacify the religious right - 30th July Why dogs should have traditional doggy names, like Spot or Rover - A survey has shown that nowadays dogs tend to have 'human' names such as Molly or Charlie. It's bad for them – and for us - 29th July Our ageing world isn't a catastrophe. It's a triumph - We are healthier, living longer and birth rates are falling. Only the most blinkered of economists could fail to rejoice - 23rd July Swine flu: All you can do is have backbone and carry on - You can't preventatively avoid your existing offspring, you'd more likely want to look after them - 22nd July The Criminal Gossip Bureau can ruin your job prospects - Government agencies are making a mockery of individual privacy. And it could play into the hands of the Conservatives - 16th July The equality watchdog is a gift for the quangophobes - Trevor Phillips's super-charged army of fairness is mired in controversy. It is much too important to be allowed to fail - 9th July This carnivalesque thirst for justice lights up our brains - If a punitive desire for revenge can animate people, then we are no less ideological than we've ever been - 2nd July I'm outraged! Well, maybe not – please redact that thought - Focus the righteous anger on all the redactions and we might get somewhere - 19th June The fertility time bomb is just as much about men - The debate about when it's best to have children needs to be degendered, and treated like any other forward planning issue - 18th June Beijing may fear it, but porn means passivity not protest - China's web crackdown is apparently rooted in fear of social unrest. Absurd: easier, surely, to control a society of atomised men? - 11th June Come on, Cowell, that saxophonist deserves a share of the profits too - What Britain's Got Talent reveals is that reality TV is a busted model for contestants. Companies, of course, still rake it in - 4th June A betrayal of poetry? No, it's just some poets being daft - Another bad boy poet and a posh Vicky Pollard have not brought shame on academia – they need to get some perspective - 27th The price of a good state education - I've got a surprise for all those parents who used to pay or pray their way out of the local primary – but now find it rather attractive - 13th May A bit like Radio Five, only much more interesting - It is produced by inmates for inmates and never broadcasts beyond the confines of HMP Brixton. But Electric Radio - with its mix of music, interviews and frank accounts of prison life - last night won two Sony radio awards - 13th May The price of a good state education - I've got a surprise for all those parents who used to pay or pray their way out of the local primary – but now find it rather attractive - 13th May Van Gogh, Emin, ears and graces - The tales of artists such as Vincent and Tracey oblige us to draft a new scale of cultural authenticity - 6th May I was wrong about Boris Johnson - A year on, it seems London's mayor isn't a bigot, or malicious, but his random ideas are reminiscent of a columnist in the wrong job - 1st May Why all this fuss about a lotion that works? - Boots's fabled wonder face-cream is called Protect and Perfect. It sounds like your standard-issue, ASA-approved half-speak, but these words are actually true - 30th May This pill is a cheap, nasty way out of dealing with the real causes of obesity - It suits policymakers to offer the overweight a magic bullet: better than facing expensive stuff like economic hopelessness - 22nd April To breed or not to breed - Attenborough is probably right about population growth. But, as so often, we'll deal with it later - 15th April Keep your veg money - The new grant for all pregnant women would be better targeted at helping poor families - 8th April Facebook vigilantes - Before police condemn an online pursuit of a rapist, they should put their own house in order - 1st April To ban Chris Moyles from saying 'gay' can only add to his fizz - Censuring certain words is pointless. Nor is there any law as powerful as public outrage, when the wrong values triumph - 25th March Concussing yourself with cheap cider does not veto your right to fairness - Alcoholics and binge drinkers may have made poor life choices, but don't have to earn justice with good behaviour - 17th March Can't fix it till you feel it - The offer of therapy for the unemployed ignores the inconvenient fact that life isn't always fair - 11th March Paxo, you're a pint of mild - The BBC heavyweight's response to University Challenge-gate was commendably restrained - 4th March I give up on the movies - American cinema is now little more than trash directed at teenagers. I'd much prefer to watch TV - 25th February Can we dig our way out of the recession? - Allotments are not the panacea the National Trust thinks they are, but nostalgia drives demand - 21st February Mum doesn't know best - The effect of an ad that overstates the dangers of cannabis is to discredit all public health advice - 18th February Here's one we marred earlier - It was a bleak day for our children when Anne Robinson ousted Blue Peter in the schedules - 11th February Public service bickering - For all that Channel 4's contrived reality TV rows flout the remit, they at least spark a good debate - 4th February Yes, Chelsy was wearing a lot of makeup - but not enough to hide the truth about her and Harry - 29th January Holiday with the hoorays - Always wanted that chav-free break? Well, now you can have it. But I'd rather be with Britney - 28th January Can the financial crisis be explained with a diagram? Because the experts are making no sense at all - 22nd January This is a job for the boys - It's up to men to counter modern risk culture and offer children some inspirational role models - 21st January It wouldn't happen to a man - Baroness Vadera makes an unwise comment - and suddenly she's 'Shrieky Shriti the ball-breaker'. And we all know why - 16th January (see: Crisis, what crisis? Minister apologises for green shoots of recovery forecast) The story of you. Yes, you - The latest census site's appeal is clear but using it as proof of social mobility is seriously misleading - 14th January It's every cough mixture for itself in these times of ill - Benylin has shown itself close to the pulse of the nation with an advert that accepts it's just fine to take a sick day - 7th January

Articles: 2008 Straw's vest is full of holes - Making offenders wear tabards is proving petty and unworkable. Let the justice minister try one - 1st January 2009 Matron Branson - How ludicrous for the Virgin boss to upbraid the NHS. Just imagine if his lot managed hospitals - 24th December 2008 The thought that counts - Christmas gifts are about fixing a set cash value on relationships. With prices in flux, best buy a goat - 17th December 2008 Bagpuss was a Miaoist - If Oliver Postgate's works sang with leftwing ideals, most children's TV has a go at spreading fairness - 10th December 2008 Power to the people - Still not joined any Facebook groups? Don't even know what they are? Maybe it's time you did, because these online armies seem to have a hand in every major news story - 5th December 2008 The useful Mr Woolas - The minister's bungling reveals him to be what Labour needs: someone to take the Prescott role - 3rd December 2008 Pro-choice taboo - It doesn't make you a eugenicist to speak up for the right to abort a foetus that may have Down's - 26th November 2008 Defiance of gravity - We know it takes toil to get fit, and yet the idea of upside-down yoga just seems too good to miss - 19th November 2008 Turned off by tart-lit - Cute terminology and Belle de Jour ethics can't disguise the violence that fuels the sex industry - 13th November 2008 The point about tipping - Restaurants should be forced to pass on their service charges to staff, or at least pay them more - 5th November 2008 Getting the kids in shape - If 10-year-olds fixated on body image worry us, we need to address the adult culture they grow up in - 29th October 2008 Old lady Madonna - Even veteran pop icons can't avoid the usual stereotypes and slurs aimed at ageing women - 23rd October 2008 The blush of youth - Squirming adolescent embarrassment is down to brain function - and it's probably just as well - 1st October 2008 There's no reason why the left can't have manners too - Etiquette is not simply an accessory of the rich, used to reinforce the status quo, but makes up the very fabric of society - 24th September 2008 Blinded by the stripes - Fashion Week shines a light on a uniquely bizarre industry that defies the basic rules of commerce - 17th September 2008 Pity the family, the horses if we must. But not the killer - As the fire in Shropshire shows, we persist in investing some kind of noble intent in men who murder their families - 3rd September 2008 Saying the unsayable - Second-youth rebels like Paxman and Shriver always bottle it when it comes to genuine taboos - 27th August 2008 'There is nothing so disastrous I won't eat it' - 21st August 2008 Go on boys, take it outside - US presidential debates promote the most crass politics. We might as well have them here too - 20th August 2008 Victimhood isn't a matter of degree for others to dictate - If alcohol has made women vulnerable to crime, does it follow that the elderly or weak are equally culpable? - 13th August 2008 Men under siege? A sense of proportion, people, please - Michael Vaughan's tears portend no crisis in masculinity. This fuss is just a distraction from the real concern: fairness - 6th August 2008 Have we fallen out of love with our pets? - Cruelty to animals is on the rise, says the RSPCA — and our affluent, throwaway society is to blame. That, and the fact that both men and women now buy pets to parade their own hyper-sexuality - 31st July 2008 Your number is up, Carol - She has profited from red-toothed capitalism so Vorderman should now accept its crueller side - 30th July 2008 A modern mystery -The John Darwin canoe disappearance - 25th July 2008 The mother of all celebrity news - Motherhood closes down a celebrity's possibilities, yokes her back to the earth, makes you think of incontinence - 24th July 2008 A dog is not a weapon - Cynophobia is irrational. But if you worry a canine might take your hand off, check the owner first - 23rd July 2008 The chavs and the chav-nots - Yes, it's a hideous word, born of snobbery. But demands to ban the term just give it more power - 16th July 2008 Double trouble - Gordon Brown says he identifies with Heathcliff, the brooding romantic hero from Wuthering Heights. But which literary figures do his political peers most resemble? - 11th July 2008 Bored to tears - A blubbing bishop is too good to ignore, especially when most of what goes on at such things is so dull - 9th July 2008 Lessons for the godless - Fulminating against faith schools is pointless. Far better to identify the real reasons for their success - 3rd July 2008 Outraged, but lazy - When it comes to complaining, we lefties are put to shame by a vocal homophobic few - 25th June 2008 Persaud's disorder - As the doctor's case shows, honesty only exists when in balance with the fear of discovery - 20th June 2008 The names of the fathers - All this proposed law over birth certificates will do is make hard-pressed mothers feel miserable - 11th June 2008 Margaret Thatcher a style icon? Do me a favour - 5th June 2008 Let's face the music - It may be bloc voting, but the UK's disastrous score at Eurovision is a chilling sign that nobody likes us - 28th May 2008 Generation excess - The popularity of social networking means it will cease to matter whether the young value privacy - 21st May 2008 Rock Hudson no more - Celebrities are now so similar that any debate about their sexuality is largely beside the point - 14th May 2008 Fact, fiction and foetuses - A campaign to reduce the late-term abortion limit insults women - and the intelligence of us all - 7th May 2008 Be afraid. Be very afraid - Unbelievable as it may seem, Boris Johnson has a real chance of being elected London mayor today. Zoe Williams and other Londoners imagine what it would be like if this bigoted, lying, Old Etonian buffoon got his hands on our diverse and liberal capital - 1st May 2008 Storm in a teen cup -Miley Cyrus has no need to apologise for her Vanity Fair pose as it's essentially meaningless - 30th April 2008 Lapdancing's naked truths - It is a nonsense to deny there is a link between legal clubs and the sex industry's murkier side - 23rd April 2008 Eco-mom: here to save the world! - Middle-class mothers in the US are embracing environmental activism. But, says Zoe Williams, they have some pretty strange ideas about what it actually involves - 17th April 2008 Muddied sentiments - Glastonbury isn't about hippy ideals or guitar bands, so why make a big fuss over hip-hop? - 16th april 2008 Bulletproof but loaded - The prejudice masked in the word 'hoodie' is more sinister than the new protective top on sale - 9th April 2008 A very liberal lover - Nick Clegg's reply to the bedpost question should work in his favour. Shame about the mental imagery - 2nd April 2008 The boom in breast implants is less about male approval than the supremacy of the market - 26th March 2008 Cherchez la femme - In the popular imagination, French women are independent and yet sublimely feminine. And those in public life - from Sarkozy's new first lady to his socialist rival - reinforce the image. But there are good reasons why British women shouldn't aspire to be French - 25th March 2008 Food fixation is the real enemy - not Fray Bentos - If the outrage caused by Delia's tinned mince teaches us one thing, it is that we can think too much about what we eat - 19th March 2008 This po-faced rectitude - Creating a taboo around the word 'gay' does not stamp out its insulting usage in the classroom - 12th March 2008 'Sorry, I binge responsibly - For all the piety and 24-hour licensing debates, booze culture is beyond government control - 5th March 2008 Off message on maternity - You just can't blame the NHS midwife shortage on mothers being too fat, too old or too feckless - 27th February 2008 A blow to equality - The Mills-McCartney case illustrates why a 50:50 divorce split isn't always best for women generally - 20th February 2008 The wheel of generosity - Clunky bikes and stiff deposits that will deter many seem a funny way to start a cycling scheme - 13th February 2008 Sermon for a carbon fast - The church should keep up its climate preaching. It is taken more seriously than politicians or media - 6th February 2008 Myths of the coping class - This voguish melodrama might abate when we realise that absurd house prices don't make us rich - 30th January 2008 Scrambled thinking - This cookery initiative reveals the gap between what is taught and what we expect of children - 23rd January 2008 Jamie's fowl sanctimony - Chef-polemicists should work on changing the law, instead of preaching to the less well-off - 16th January 2008 Writers can't carry it alone - The right to strike may be eroding to the point where only non-essential workers are allowed do it - 9th January 2008 The secret of getting on with your ex - 2nd January 2008

The Guardian: Column name: 'Radio Head' Remit/Info: "A critical ear on the aural gems of the last seven days" Section: TV & radio Role: Columnist Pen-name: Email: mszoewilliams@yahoo.co.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/series/radiohead Commissioning editor: Day published: Wednesday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Average length:

Articles: 2009 Zoe Williams signs off - These are my final radio thoughts, and I've decided to mark the occasion with a round-up of all the things I've got wrong in the period between now and the last time I did a round-up of everything I'd got wrong - 15th July (Final column) Radio 4 on the financial crisis - From Today to Any Questions?, Radio 4 is loving the credit crunch - 8th July Late Junction - I am not trying to kick festival culture, but new ideas don't flourish in mud and drugs. They happen in quiet studios, on modest budgets - 1st July I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue - Anyone who thinks the show isn't the same without Humph, no it isn't. It has a dark new heart - 17th June BBC Asian Network - That's what's missing from other phone-ins: the triumph of good over evil - 10th June The World Tonight is too often swamped by ersatz controversies that shouldn't be controversial at all - 3rd June Seriously, all you Sony winners. You are not my family. You all do an incredibly good job - 13th May why Book at Bedtime is actually quite useful - 6th May on the Resonance FM's Flickerman - a strange and exhilarating experience - 22nd April Small kids love Fun Radio. It's basically just hours and hours of musical noise, really jolly, inoffensive, upbeat, jangly noise - 15th April Radio 4 changes anyway - this is Creme-Egg seasonality, unconnected to the exigencies of the actual seasons - 8th April My problems continue with the Radio 4 comedy juggernaut, and I think I have got to the bottom of them, or at least part-way. It is David Mitchell - 25th March I don't have esoteric taste - my problem is, I occupy a middle-ground that is not naff, but is pretty conservative - 18th March the Ripley Series - 11th March The Time Machine (Radio 3), The Archers and The Lady in the Van (Radio 4) - 25th February on the Radio 5 Live/Radio 4 war that continues to rage in her house - 18th February Desert Island Discs (Radio 4) and Ken Bruce (Radio 2) - 11th February The BBC's refusal to air the Gaza emergency appeal on TV meant that its radio coverage was the best aural appeal anyone could ever have devised - 29th January Radio 3, it cannot have escaped your notice, is celebrating bi- and tri-centenaries all over the place - 21st January All the radio stations should have duelled over who was allowed to celebrate 50 years of Motown - 14th January

Articles: 2008 on not enjoying guest editors during the festive season - 31st December 2008 the Today programme (Radio 4) - 17th December 2008 I'm celebrating advent by listing all the times I have been wrong throughout the year - 3rd December 2008 You do not find many competitions on intellectual radio - 26th November 2008 on For the Good Times: The Kris Kristofferson Story - 19th November 2008 on 4 Stands Up - 5th November 2008 Russell Brand is a cheap, snake-bite-and-black pub psycho, a Begbie with hair - 29th October 2008 on Cerys Matthews' stint filling in for Stephen Merchant on BBC 6Music - 22nd October 2008 When I get into a minicab and the driver is playing my station I think how fortunate that is - 8th October 2008 I love The Choice precisely because Michael Buerk is the sinner, sorry, I mean presenter - 1st October 2008 Magic 105.4 - 24th September 2008 ...on Between Ourselves | Moral Maze - 10th September 2008 ...on Twenty Minutes - 3rd September 2008 Others love Paul Merton for his ready wit; I could find charm in the sound of his breathing - 27th August 2008 I don't know why I keep on about Denise Van Outen when, technically, I am in favour of her existence - 13th August 2008 on Marc Riley | Radcliffe and Maconie - 6th August 2008 Weather on the radio - 30th July 2008 ...on Nick Ferrari at Breakfast - 16th July 2008 ...on The Al Read Show - 9th July 2008 Radio remains the main place people discover new music and the biggest driver of new purchases - 2nd July 2008 I was talking to a producer on World Tonight (Radio 4, 10pm) about sound effects and on-location sounds... - 18th June 2008 Zoe Williams objects to her boyfriend changing the radio statio - 11th June 2008 What I do hold against the BBC, is this idea that they have to pay radio presenters a tonne to make up for what they would have earned if they'd been on the telly - 4th June 2008 ...on Feedback - 21st May 2008 ...on Jonathan Dimbleby's take on Charles Kennedy failing to turn up at Radio 4 - 14th May 2008 ...on In Our Time - 7th May 2008 ...on The Classic Serial - 23rd April 2008 ...CBeebies Radio - 16th April 2008 ...on On the Ropes - 9th April 2008 ...on Rudy's Rare Records - 21st March 2008 ...on Open Country - 14th March 2008 ...on Pick of the Week | Feedback | Money Box Live - 29th February 2008 Have you heard Denise and Johnny on Capital? - Air-headedness is no problem; Denise van Outen can do it standing on her air-head - 22nd February 2008 ...on Fighting Talk - 15th February 2008 Zoe Williams on Politically Charged - 1st February 2008 Garden quiz - It's just start-to-finish ill-conceived; plant characteristics aren't finite enough; gardeners don't agree enough. Great radio though - 25th January 2008 I said I would stop going on about Woman's Hour, and I meant it. - I just need to lodge one final complaint against Jane Garvey, and that's it - 18th January 2008 ...on her pregnant friend's aversion to Radio 4 - 4th January 2008

The Guardian: Column name: 'Antinatal' *this column ended 9th Oct 2009* Remit/Info: "Charts the trials and tribulations of first-time motherhood" Section: G2: Comment & features Role: Columnist Pen-name: Email: mszoewilliams@yahoo.co.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/series/antinatalseries Commissioning editor: Day published: Friday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Average length:

Articles: Why do some men not get birth-partner etiquette? No, it's not OK to stand in the delivery room downloading apps on to your iPhone - 31st July 2009 It's bad form to break the silence surrounding childbirth, but I'm going to - 24th July 2009 Nicking your friend's child's name for your own offspring is not cool - 17th July 2009 T is not interested in his sibling growing in my tummy. Maybe I should tell him it's a puppy instead ... - 10th July 2009 I'd like an epidural but can't face a shouting match with the midwife. Perhaps I'll try hypnotherapy instead - 3rd July 2009 I have started boring passersby with tedious observations about T. I genuinely make myself sick - 26th June 2009 T hates his car seat - on one recent trip he shouted 'out!' all the way to France - 19th June 2009 T is too young to be reasoned with, but old enough to pull my hair. There's no solution to this problem - 12th June 2009 More than two hours waiting in the maternity clinic and I just sit there, totally placid. What's wrong with me? - Naomi Wolf wrote of the obstetric profession that it had a "telling, subtle but distinctive lack of compassion", which you'd never know about if you didn't have a baby. At the time, some while off being pregnant - 29th May 2009 T has developed a huge vocabulary of disobliging remarks. He can even say 'no' in French - 22nd May 2009 I'm concerned by the dangerous subtexts of Thomas the Tank Engine. Blame my mother - 15th May 2009 Being six months' pregnant means looking after yourself - not getting knocked off your bike - 1st May 2009 I fooled myself into thinking T would eat anything. Then came his frankfurter tantrum ... - It's been a week of firsts, all of them objectively bad firsts, but it's nice when they learn things - 24th April 2009 The problem with getting pregnant for the second time is that it's just like the first time. Except nobody cares - 17th April 2009 What do you do when your son has a tantrum in public? There's always some book with a crazy answer - 10th April 2009 T seems to be adopting some of the dog's habits. Am I failing in my duties as a mum, or as a dog-owner? - 3rd April 2009 Second time around, I'm not buying parachutes for trousers or dwelling on remarks about the size of my bump - 27th March 2009 To recap: I have just found out that I am pregnant again - 20 weeks pregnant. It is incredibly embarrassing - 20th March 2009 I had no idea until I looked in the mirror at the gym. Unbelievably, I'm pregnant again - and 20 weeks in - 13th March 2009 I can't work out if T isn't talking because he's a genius or because the shipping forecast is interfering with his learning - 6th March 2009 T is not even two and I have already had more pointless discussions about schools than I care to remember - 27th February 2009 Don't believe every childcare decision is made in the infant's best interests - I need to read the paper too - 20th February 2009 It's OK for insomniacs or the hung-over to moan about lack of sleep - but parents doing it sound like martyrs - 13th February 2009 When you ring your sister to tell her about your sick baby, you don't expect sarcasm - 6th February 2009 I can't stand crusading parents who feed their children tofu and rice cakes and think raisins are a naughty treat - 30th January 2009 Of course I am a full-time parent. I look after the kids all day on a Monday, not counting nap time - 23rd January 2009 I hate parents who opt out of baby vaccinations. So why haven't I taken T to have all of his yet? - 16th January 2009 I have no enthusiasm for children's television or children's books. They're seriously witless - I cannot muster any enthusiasm for those books that are just pictures of things, with its name written next to it - 9th January 2009 T loves his father more than me. I'm sure I'll come into my own when he's older - I just hope it's not too late - 19th December 2008 My baby has taken after me in one respect at least: overnight he seems to have become allergic to the bath - 12th December 2008 Which one of us thought that trying to go to a party together - on a weeknight - was a good idea? - 5th December 2008 There's a point when T's behaviour can turn me from pushover into raging bull. It's called pulling the animal's tail - 28th November 2008 I have been on a bus with T three times: the first, he was about four weeks old - 21st November 2008 Nowadays your child must have playdates. Whether they result in fights or telly-watching is anybody's guess - What they really mean is rendezvous. We don't even have our own word for it - 14th November 2008 I won't do what my parents did ... - I won't frighten T with talk of nuclear war, or feed him ratatouille sandwiches - 7th November 2008 Whenever I meet someone who's pregnant, I always want to ask if it's their first - even if they're famous - 31st October 2008 So now T's got shoes, or pre-shoes. But I can't get his feet into them. My fault for not buying him pre-pre-shoes - 24th October 2008 I left my firstborn with a woman who has a serial-killer's name. Never again ... except if I'm going out for a meal - 17th october 2008 When my baby is happy, I'm happy too. That's why I gladly swapped the pub for the playground - 10th October 2008 It is possible to go shopping with small children in tow. But you do end up buying some very odd things - 3rd October 2008 It's T's birthday next week. But who should I invite to his party? And what should they give him? - 26th september 2008 I'm no fun anymore. The best I can do to make my baby laugh is to throw a tea towel over my head - 19th September 2008 The customs official at the airport stole my baby's dinner - Where else in the world would that be OK? - 12th September 2008 Babies have only three expressions - They could be unlocking the secrets of the universe for all we know - 5th September 2008 You think that taking a baby on holiday is hard work? Just wait until they hit the wrecking-ball stage - 29th August 2008 Don't believe all the myths about post-pregnancy weight loss. Just have a custard slice and wait it out - 22nd August 2008 Let's get one thing straight - looking pregnant and being fat are two totally different things - 15th August 2008 My hygiene rules have become so relaxed that I'm thinking of handing J-Cloths to visitors at the front door - 8th August 2008 I like to believe I am the best person to watch over my baby, but every time he falls over it suggests otherwise - 1st August 2008 Only-children are weird, but siblings can really screw you up. So what is the ideal number of kids to have? - 25th July 2008 The Well Baby Clinic is aptly named. If there's anything wrong with your child they can't do a thing to help - 27th June 2008 T has learned to crawl - It's as if I've been looking after a cushion and suddenly I'm in charge of a conger eel - 6th June 2008 I swore I wouldn't be an embarrassing mother. But the key to being a success in life is changing your mind, right? - 23rd May 2008 "Your tits will never be the same," people said to me. I'd hoped they were winding me up. Well, they weren't - 16th May 2008 There's so much advice out there - but what should I take seriously, and what is just middle-class nonsense? - 9th May 2008 I think Spot is feeling a bit unloved. Then again, who knows what's going on in his little doggie head? - 28th March 2008 I thought the father who forgot to put a nappy on his baby was bad enough, until I heard an even worse tale - 21st March 2008 When choosing your tot's transport, remember: a bigger baby buggy is not always a better baby buggy - 1st February 2008 I won't take T swimming or play peek-a-boo, but I am prepared to spend time fretting about his development - 25th January 2008 While my boyfriend exercises his freedom of movement, I'm left wondering if gender equality was all a sick joke - 18th January 2008 Nothing had prepared me for the agony of baby jabs. How am I going to face the baby abattoir again? - 11th January 2008 T and his dad look so alike... how am I ever going to know which one to nag and which one to breastfeed? - 4th January 2008 Here's one problem of motherhood I never could have foreseen: smile performance anxiety - 14th December 2007 Is having a baby the enemy of creativity? - Well, when I emerge from this cognitive fog, I'll let you know... - 9th November 2007 Time spent worrying about your baby is time totally wasted. If only I could follow my own advice... - 2nd November 2007 What do I do all day? - Well, I go up and down the stairs a lot, watch the baby a lot... oh, I can't remember what I do - 26th October 2007 I always thought mothers who didn't breastfeed were feckless - but now I realise why some reach for a bottle - 19th October 2007 Pineapples, sex and curries are all supposed to bring on labour, but there is an even more desperate method - 21st September 2007 I'm drinking coffee and suddenly that makes me an evil mum-to-be. What is wrong with these people? - 14th September 2007

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