|
Gaby HinsliffThe Guardian |
“Sophie” was 12 years old when she walked into Oldham police station to report a sexual assault. For a vulnerable child, first befriended and...
Last Saturday night, I went clubbing with friends. Once upon a time, this wouldn’t have been a remotely odd sentence to type, because it was what...
Rachel Reeves is not for turning. She won’t be pushed around, knocked off course, undermined by backbench mutterings or criticism from the...
Without him, it could all so easily have fallen apart. There are vanishingly few politicians of any era of whom that’s true, but John Prescott was...
Hell is other people. Or, more specifically, other people on social media. Hell is millions of people who would avoid each other like the plague if...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a fortune is usually dead keen to throw it at Prince Andrew. Because they keep...
Dawn had barely broken, and nor had Kamala Harris publicly conceded, when Keir Starmer tweeted his congratulations to the not-quite-officially...
Nigel Farage has an echo. A rather tinny one, admittedly, but it’s uncanny all the same. Whatever he says, somewhere from the cavernous depths of...
Workers of the world, unite. Nothing’s too good for the workers. You know what it means, instantly, when you see “worker” in a phrase like that...
When people say that music can change the world, they don’t usually mean songs that capture with bright, sharp intimacy how girls feel. They mean...
And on the hundredth day, he rested. The prime minister marked the passing of this crucial milestone for his young government by jetting off to an...
You can’t get much for £5.50 nowadays. A takeaway coffee and a muffin, maybe; a pint and a packet of crisps, outside London. But in parts of...
There is one scene in Demi Moore’s new film, The Substance, that made the actor cry, and it’s a scene about self-loathing. Getting ready for a...
Rosie Duffield never dreamed, she insists, that she would end up leaving the Labour party. And how lucky for her, in some ways, if she genuinely...
Jamie used to love his job. Working as a hospital porter, helping sick people in need, he probably never expected to become a patient himself: at...
When darkness falls, it’s time to bolt the doors. Check the windows, test the locks; circle the house, then anxiously check all over again. The...
Elle Macpherson believes, for some reason, that disease thrives in an acidic body. The Australian ex-supermodel swears by the benefits of limiting...
Sometimes it’s the little things that matter. An unexpected kindness, a burst of late summer sunshine, a cheerful snippet of news; things that...
Look, it’s not funny. I don’t know why you’re all sniggering at the back because – seriously now! – it’s not funny. Or big. Or clever....