Martha Gill
Columnist, politics: the Evening Standard and the New Statesman. Writing: Observer, Times, Sunday Times, NYT. Previously: lobby and Times leaders
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Birthrates are falling in the rich world and elsewhere. Women and men in these places on average want 2 children but have far fewer. Why? I think we’ve been missing something 🧵 ht...
A friendly challenge to @RichardvReeves and co who say that it is Western strides in equality - leaving ‘lost boys’ and men with few role models and diminished prospects - which ar...
Each lectern somehow fits the personality of its prime minister https://t.co/M4KcKcVdTD
Brits love animals. Perhaps too much. More people leave money to the RSPCA than the NSPCC, we donate to donkeys over domestic abuse victims, we chose to airlift 173 cats and dogs o...
I wrote about offensive comedians - Jerry Sadowitz news broke a fraction too late to be included, the piece is on Terry Gilliam. But luckily the argument applies to both https://t....
Ooh each gets a question to a rival. This is spicy. Really enjoying this #itvdebate
Thread: Celebrities are the new gentlemen amateurs 🧵
@stephenkb @HCH_Hill Right, and my answer to that objection is still 1. A ban on sales isn’t prohibition 2. These measures are closer to previous ones than you suggest in that they...
I’ve written about what caused Pestminster https://t.co/X9t8ZJczmU
Since Brexit, the idea that London is incredibly different to everywhere else in Britain has been rather over-stretched https://t.co/nKNtfeOUMP
Of all the shocking aspects of #DeppvHeard, perhaps the worst is the portrait that has been painted of a mental health condition called borderline personality disorder. It’s the fi...
Did the Basic Instinct story originate with Rayner? A brief timeline… https://t.co/2vqalGKDn0