Martha Gill
@Martha_Gill
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Weekly opinion columnist: The Observer. Previously: Economist Britain correspondent https://t.co/ZKCi7HQKdR
Joined September 2009
If only the “protective ring thrown around care homes” had matched the one thrown around Cummings.
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Hello, so I am recovering from coronavirus and thought I’d tweet a day by day list of my symptoms as I found similar threads very helpful. (For context have no underlying health conditions).
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They've chosen the hill they want to die on, and its that Grenfell victims weren't as clever as Jacob Rees Mogg.
You don’t need to be educated at Eton , to know that it’s smart to leave a burning building.
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Johnson responds to question about the murder of Jo Cox: “The best way to ensure that every Parliamentarian is properly safe and we dial down the current anxiety in this country is to get Brexit done”. In other words, if MPs want to avoid getting murdered things better go his way.
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The moment when it dawns on Iain Dale that he’s just made an argument for a second referendum
The moment when it dawns on Remainers that Danny Dyer actually voted Brexit.
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Please don't panic. The government has stockpiled six weeks worth of Johnsons to ensure adequate supplies in an emergency.
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So if she was joking about it, it was in response to a story that had been circulating for at least a month. Laughing off a sexist story that is already widespread is very different to coming up with it yourself.
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There was so much more to Churchill than his bust. We should ask ourselves why we continually need to sexualise him.
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Always fascinated with the “what is university for” question. When rich kids are involved: “university is so much more than getting a job: it’s about enriching the soul/rounding you out as a human being”. When it’s a poor kid: “but will this really help them get a better job?”
You don’t have to go to university to succeed in life.
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Very odd to call yesterday’s stories “inaccurate” when the government just spent the day defending the events revealed in those stories and rewriting its own guidelines to accommodate them.
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Go on, think of a better name for a cokehead ex boyfriend of Ivanka Trump
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This 'science advisor' is a psychologist. I really can't believe we are attempting to 'nudge' our way out of this with soft science when we need hard science. Epidemiologists are the scientists to listen to.
Government #coronavirus science advisor Dr David Halpern tells me of plans to ‘cocoon’ vulnerable groups.
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Did the Basic Instinct story originate with Rayner? A brief timeline…
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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 🧵
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Londoners are never more than six feet away from a Rory Stewart.
Now - if anyone is around and wants to talk - in Kew Gardens - for the next hour
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Hope to live to see the day that a meeting of G7 leaders is mistaken for a hen do
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New glass ceiling test: when rivalry between two school girls in the same drinking society can eventually destroy Europe.
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If there is a second referendum, Remain should pledge to invest the money that will be saved in areas that originally voted leave.
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Sorry but I actually think Swinson is performing well and providing fairly compelling answers given the questions she’s getting #bbcqt.
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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 are ultimately behind the rise of Andrew Tate. This narrative feels right. Is it true? 🧵
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I love that the story of this failed treehouse is basically the same as that of Boris Island, the garden bridge, the bridge between Scotland and Northern Island and all other impractical and overpriced Boris infrastructure projects
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When will women learn to simply not reach middle age? We've been warned often enough.
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Right, now I want to see some in depth coverage of bitchy fights between the Lionesses' BAPs (boyfriends and partners). Who hates who? How are they using instagram to signal their status in the group?.
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All these online dating companies promising you'll find your spouse on their site, only Ashley Madison is really delivering.
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The co-founder of XR actually wrote a column for the standard yesterday before hurrying over to blockade their printing presses
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We’re in the midst of a self sabotaging moral panic over vaping. Let me explain 🧵.
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Priti Patel will be the first home sec in 30 years to have said they’re in favour of hanging.
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Have just been told I’m in Stewart Lee’s “pedal bin” list, for this 2019 tweet….
Is Stewart lee funny or does he just say things his audience is likely to agree with, really slowly.
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Why can't the state simply provide every man with a surrogate handmaiden? V frustrating.
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Most of us discover it much earlier.
Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 when he discovered the law of gravity.
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We’ve never had a problem believing women. Throughout history, our only issue has ever been with this one bitch, who is lying. How Depp v Heard could kill #MeToo Me for @ObserverUK
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Should clarify: I have not been tested but had been in contact with someone who was tested positive.
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Could it be that it is not ACTUAL unfairness but PERCEIVED unfairness that drives young men to misogynist ideology? And that this perception is related HOW SEXIST their society is? Could it be the West’s residual sexism, not its relative equality, to blame for Tate?
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I stand by this from June.
We tend to trace the outbreak of lying in politics to the personality of the prime minister. But as any fishermen knows, a fish rots not from the head but from the guts. There’s a lie at the centre of UK politics: Brexit. The lies won’t go when Boris does
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@caitlinmoran That said, I like how much more likely men are to go on an errand if you present it as a ‘quest’.
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I wrote about "no worries if not" and how irritating it is when people tell women to be more confident
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Would recommend: forcing yourself to eat something small every couple of hours if you can’t face a meal. Deleting twitter app off phone. Finally reading Sally Rooney. Would not recommend: building works on BOTH SIDES next door (argh).
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That would make sense in historical context. We get less and less angry about equality movements as they make progress. Tate is sexism’s last gasp, not feminism’s bastard child
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So why do young men really follow Tate? Well, like everyone else, they are susceptible to the idea someone else is to blame for their problems (which is after all the most powerful idea in politics)
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The doll of the Queen will “remind girls they can be anything”. This is a very Tina Fey joke
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We tend to trace the outbreak of lying in politics to the personality of the prime minister. But as any fishermen knows, a fish rots not from the head but from the guts. There’s a lie at the centre of UK politics: Brexit. The lies won’t go when Boris does
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Guess what. They are ALSO flocking to misogynist ideologues. Except there are more of them. And they are EVEN ANGRIER at the ‘unfairness’ they are suffering at the hands of feminists
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This is Milan. Italy is rated second in the world for healthcare provision by the WHO. We are 18th
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The Amanda Platell piece below was out on 7th Jan. The Matt Forde podcast, where Basic Instinct memes were mentioned, was out on 26th Jan
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Their first choice might still be “marriage and babies with Mr Right”. But their SECOND CHOICE is staying single. Their grandmother’s and mother’s second choice would more likely have been “marriage and babies with Mr Wrong”.
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Hang on, why do only modern women have this problem? . Well, “just not finding the right man” is a MODERN LUXURY. In the past, women who didn’t find Mr Right would likely at some point have to pair with Mr Wrong: single life was just too miserable and poverty stricken
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Well here’s a radical solution: target single parents. Policy makers could make it a lot easier to have a child alone. Single mother numbers are already bucking the birthrate trends. If we really want to tackle the birthrate problem: that’s where they should start
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It is very painful to vote for my people to stay in slavery in Egypt. But I hope we can now work together to remedy the defects.
It is very painful to vote for this deal. But I hope we can now work together to remedy its defects, avoid the backstop trap and strive to deliver the Brexit people voted for.
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@DrProudman Yes - and why do men think this stuff? It’s not because they have really been “left behind” by feminism as some are saying - but because these sexist narratives are still floating around. It’s not too much equality, but too much patriarchy
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The war in Ukraine shows us starkly just how exploitative commercial surrogacy is. #InternationalWomensDay 🧵(1/8)
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"I'm thinking Eve in the garden, but Country Life, with a nod to 'Handmaid's Tale' via 'Men'. No, I want you to be able to SEE it's not a real stone wall"
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Deal with Hitler ✅.Deal with the EU ❌.
🚨 NEW: A ReformUK candidate has claimed the UK should have ‘taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality’ instead of fighting the Nazis. [@bbclaurak].
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Asking people not to stockpile stuff in case it runs out always works.
.@MattHancock asks the public to not stockpile medicine in preparation for a no-deal Brexit and says that they will work with the pharmaceutical industry to reach demand. #Peston
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We should be very careful about legalising assisted dying - putting ‘safeguards’ in place might seem straightforward, but really isn’t
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Here’s a suggestion: surveys suggest THE TOP reason for women not having as many children as they would like is not finance or childcare or lifestyle related. These women just have not found the right man
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@caitlinmoran Yes but these are things written and said by people who mistake arguments against the patriarchy for the argument there is something inherently bad about men and boys. There isn’t. And all that is best about the male and female character are things we share!.
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Does this remind anyone of a The Day Today sketch? “So, the climate, yes or no?…. Just one word answers gentlemen please…. Yes or no… I’m going to have to press you…”.
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*Job news*. Thrilled to be joining @thetimes as a leader writer, writing about politics, policy and other things as part of the great @Simon_Nixon’s team. I’ll also be writing for the comment pages.
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Exchanges at PMQs are going to be so wonkish. Just two nerds getting cross with each other.
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Sunak speech is a see-saw. Every other sentence flipping between two mutually incompatible policy agendas: high growth vs paying the debt, standing by 2019 vs addressing the new problems.
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According to both the Mail and Telegraph, Rayner’s alleged joke about it on the Commons terrace was around two months ago - so late February
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What’s amazing is that the government would rather muddy the messaging on social distancing in the middle of a pandemic than get rid of Cummings.
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Brexit fooled the political class into thinking voters cared more about culture war issues than living standards and the economy. But Leave’s arguments WERE about living standards and the economy. It was the £350m/NHS promise that swayed people
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Young men in the West don’t lack for role models, sorry. Their future is still bright
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Women may not ideally want to be single and childless but they can now afford to be IF the right man doesn’t come along. That solves our paradox: why women who have more choice end up with fewer children than they would like
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So let me get his full defence in order. He’s too honourable. It was a straightforward shooting weekend. He has only recently learned to sweat. And he has only been to a pizza express in Woking the once.
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Take South Korea where there is the worst pay gap in the rich world and a culture of harassment. But there is ALSO a vast anti feminist movement among young males, 2/3rds of whom feel unfairness towards men is the ‘big issue’
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Please stop publishing the same article about wild swimming every week, I beg you.
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On the plus side, Trump has made himself much more eligible for jobs such as this at Camden People’s Theatre
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Me in this week’s @spectator on why the rise and rise of pop psychology in the discourse (triggering, narcissism, self-care, boundaries, projection, imposter syndrome) is bad for the left
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Feel like this column from day one of Truss’s premiership is holding up
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Or take Slovakia which ranks around the bottom of EU charts for equality but where young men feel the most hard done by in the bloc
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Their faces when she loses mv3 and doesn’t resign.
Tory minister after Tory minister tonight saying how dignified and brave the PM is, these are the same ones who have been plotting and undermining her for months and months trying to force her out of the door. Their manoeuvring&sycophant comments will not be fooling anybody! 👎.
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Well one way to test the theory would be to look at international comparison points. What are young men doing in countries where equality HAS NOT made many strides? Places where men are still very much on top?.
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And are we really in the grip of a ‘masculinity crisis’? I only note that one appears whenever and whenever feminist fightback. There’s currently one in China…
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I think this is the worst one yet. Follow the rules unless Hancock has personal experience of how hard they are to follow. Then it is “entirely right” to break them.
I know how ill coronavirus makes you. It was entirely right for Dom Cummings to find childcare for his toddler, when both he and his wife were getting ill.
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Omg this is excellent work. Every company that virtue signals about International Women's Day gets a tweet from @PayGapApp calculating its own gender pay gap.
In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 73.2% lower than men's.
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Wow - just giving up beef and lamb (not that difficult) would have huge effect on greenhouse gas emissions - you don’t have to go full vegan to massively help environment (ht @henrymance). Important to allow people to virtue signal about not eating beef
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We're bad at preparing for disasters. We tend to start only when they're already here (climate worry spikes during heat waves, then goes back down). That's why government by focus group won't cut it when it comes to green issues: we need leadership
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🚨Professional news: thrilled to officially be made a weekly columnist at the Observer.
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Do people know that soap works better than hand sanitiser? Hand sanitiser is just for when you can’t get to a sink.
Visitors steal hand sanitiser gel from hospital .
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Is Stewart lee funny or does he just say things his audience is likely to agree with, really slowly.
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