Mary Wakefield

Mary Wakefield is commissioning editor of The Spectator.

Pokémon Go? I wish it would

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

Monday morning: one hand trapped beneath the fat and guzzling midget, with the other I idly opened the gates of…

What’s to blame for a generation’s desperation?

16 July 2016 9:00 am

Youth is wasted on the young, for the most part, and thank God for that. There’s nothing grislier than a…

What’s to blame for a generation’s desperation?

14 July 2016 1:00 pm

Youth is wasted on the young, for the most part, and thank God for that. There’s nothing grislier than a…

The day that Brexit camped in my kitchen

18 June 2016 9:00 am

On Thursday last week, as the baby and I were moving in our usual slow circles around the house, from…

The day that Brexit camped in my kitchen

16 June 2016 1:00 pm

On Thursday last week, as the baby and I were moving in our usual slow circles around the house, from…

Stop lecturing fatties – it’s really not their fault

4 June 2016 9:00 am

I’ve noticed for some time now that thin people, genuinely slim ones, have a secret loathing of fatties. Kindly though…

Great news for fatties: it’s really not your fault

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

I’ve noticed for some time now that thin people, genuinely slim ones, have a secret loathing of fatties. Kindly though…

Why is Obama so obsessed with transgender toilet rights?

21 May 2016 9:00 am

Who’d have thought that one of Obama’s last great battles would be over toilets? Last week he issued a strict…

Obama’s last great battle is in the bathroom

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

Who’d have thought that one of Obama’s last great battles would be over toilets? Last week he issued a strict…

I used to back Jeremy Hunt’s digital NHS plan. Now I know it’s a disaster

7 May 2016 9:00 am

My baby and I excel at blood tests. He (tiny, jaundiced) stretches out naked under the hospital’s hot cot-lamps like…

In praise of doctors’ handwriting

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

My baby and I excel at blood tests. He (tiny, jaundiced) stretches out naked under the hospital’s hot cot-lamps like…

The scan said my baby wouldn’t live. It was wrong

26 March 2016 9:00 am

When my unborn baby was a five-month-old fetus, twisting about in the internal dark, he was given a death sentence…

The scan said my baby wouldn’t live. It was wrong

23 March 2016 3:00 pm

When my unborn baby was a five-month-old fetus, twisting about in the internal dark, he was given a death sentence…

The sad decline of the teenage snog

27 February 2016 9:00 am

Sometimes I sit my nieces down and treat them to tales of dating in the dark ages, before iPhones arrived…

Whatever happened to ‘Snog first, talk later’?

25 February 2016 3:00 pm

Sometimes I sit my nieces down and treat them to tales of dating in the dark ages, before iPhones arrived…

I, robot. You, unemployed

16 January 2016 9:00 am

One evening last autumn, four experts in the field of artificial intelligence arrived in Westminster with an urgent message for…

I, robot. You, unemployed

14 January 2016 3:00 pm

One evening last autumn, four experts in the field of artificial intelligence arrived in Westminster with an urgent message for…

Am I a brave cult survivor, too?

12 December 2015 9:00 am

When I was 21, I lived with a cult for a year. It was a commune really, a tight-knit group…

Am I a brave cult survivor, too?

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

When I was 21, I lived with a cult for a year. It was a commune really, a tight-knit group…

The Vicar of Baghdad: 'I've looked through the Quran trying to find forgiveness... there isn’t any.'

21 November 2015 9:00 am

Exiled to Hampshire by Isis bombs, saintly Canon Andrew White itches to go back to the Middle East

Isis takes its British schoolgirl jihadis seriously. Why don’t we?

10 October 2015 9:00 am

When the first schoolgirls ran away to Isis I had some sympathy for them — at least, I could see…

Isis takes its British schoolgirl jihadis seriously. Why don’t we?

8 October 2015 2:00 pm

When the first schoolgirls ran away to Isis I had some sympathy for them — at least, I could see…

Is our only choice to be cynics or suckers?

26 September 2015 8:00 am

It’s all the rage to mistrust the powerful these days, to say politicians are scum, or all bankers are selfish.…

Is my only choice to be a cynic or a sucker?

24 September 2015 1:00 pm

It’s all the rage to mistrust the powerful these days, to say politicians are scum, or all bankers are selfish.…

Warning! Can seriously damage your health

The contagious madness of the new PC

29 August 2015 9:00 am

Obsessive searching for hurt and offence will create it where once it never existed