Mary Wakefield

Mary Wakefield is commissioning editor of The Spectator.

Pornography and the truth about the Pelicot case

5 October 2024 9:00 am

There have been protests in 30 cities across France, people marching in outrage over the case of Dominique Pelicot who…

The adult ADHD trap

21 September 2024 9:00 am

I was on the bus recently and bored when I decided not to ignore but to answer one of those…

No one will change their mind about Hamas

7 September 2024 9:00 am

Earlier this summer, my son and I biked over to fashionable east Hackney where it’s normal to pay £4.20 for…

Why children have stopped reading

10 August 2024 9:00 am

It’s only when you read the old stories again, to a child maybe, that you become aware of the extent…

The vanity of Gavin Newsom

27 July 2024 9:00 am

Not long before Joe Biden finally accepted defeat, Gavin Newsom, the 56-year-old governor of California, was on the stump for…

Why was Jeremy Hunt SHOUTING AT ME?

13 July 2024 9:00 am

Robert Jenrick, once immigration minister and still, just, MP for Newark, said on Sunday that the Tories lost not because…

Tory men! Terfs need you

29 June 2024 9:00 am

Some of my good male friends, Tories, are sick of terfs. I can see it in their shifty eyes, in…

America is in trouble if Gavin Newsom succeeds Biden

29 June 2024 3:12 am

Gavin Newsom, the governor of California is everywhere at the moment, earnestly assuring Americans of his unwavering loyalty to poor,…

There’s something very wrong with children’s history books

15 June 2024 9:00 am

The first editor I worked for was Charles Moore and, like many of his old and ageing former staff, I…

I’m taking mental notes for my old age

1 June 2024 9:00 am

I know straight away, from the look on my friend Alice’s face, whether it’s a ‘bad carer’ day. Five years…

The asexual revolution

18 May 2024 9:00 am

Who could have foreseen that half a century after the sexual revolution we’d be facing its exact opposite: an asexual…

Why send children to therapy?

4 May 2024 9:00 am

I’ve been reading a book by the American journalist Abigail Shrier – Bad Therapy – which describes just how demented…

The ‘luxury beliefs’ that harm vulnerable children

6 April 2024 9:00 am

Now that everyone insists that the oppressed must be lifted up – or platformed, if you’re that way inclined: why…

What’s in a name?

25 November 2023 9:00 am

Are smartphones making us care less about humanity?

11 November 2023 9:00 am

Generation Z were the first to grow up attached to smartphones. They spent their adolescence bathed in screen-light and now…

I regret not having more children

14 October 2023 9:00 am

Life doesn’t always work out perfectly. You can make the wrong decisions. You can leave things too late. I wish,…

Mexico’s progressive hell

16 September 2023 9:00 am

Every morning I check to see if Rodrigo Iván Cortés has published the ‘apology’ that the court in Mexico has…