Mary Wakefield
When the fear of racism trumps everything else
Do you remember Alan Kurdi, the poor, drowned three-year-old whose photograph provoked a wave of sympathy for migrants almost exactly…
The Boris-bashers should be ashamed
Throughout this fractious summer, one thing has united all the warring pundits and politicians. Left, right; Leave, Remain, everyone at…
The Boris-bashers should be ashamed
Throughout this fractious summer, one thing has united all the warring pundits and politicians. Left, right; Leave, Remain, everyone at…
Pokémon Go? I wish it would
Monday morning: one hand trapped beneath the fat and guzzling midget, with the other I idly opened the gates of…
Pokémon Go? I wish it would
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?
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?
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’?
Sometimes I sit my nieces down and treat them to tales of dating in the dark ages, before iPhones arrived…
I, robot. You, unemployed
One evening last autumn, four experts in the field of artificial intelligence arrived in Westminster with an urgent message for…
I, robot. You, unemployed
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?
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?
When I was 21, I lived with a cult for a year. It was a commune really, a tight-knit group…
Isis takes its British schoolgirl jihadis seriously. Why don’t we?
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?
When the first schoolgirls ran away to Isis I had some sympathy for them — at least, I could see…
