PinnedClair WoodwardWhat’s a girl got to do to get heard?Frankly, I’d be more interesting to the world if I was dead. Alive, it seems that I am of no interest to anyone, but if I went to join the…8 min read·Mar 16, 2021--1--1
PinnedClair WoodwardWhat to watch in lockdown: real-life editionThe three of you who HAVE read War and Peace, or caught up on all those Best Foreign Film Oscar-winners in lockdown can bugger off now. I…4 min read·Oct 14, 2020----
Clair WoodwardTaxing the childless, and other ways to kick us when we’re downWhen the thing which irritates me most about a comment piece is that it praises Boris Johnson for the amount of children he’s fathered, it…4 min read·Jul 4, 2022--1--1
Clair Woodward“Hardworking families”Sir Keir Starmer gave his first speech of 2021 today, asking the government to put “families first”. Yesterday, he wrote for the Sunday…5 min read·Jan 11, 2021--1--1
Clair WoodwardNatalie RIPRead this today. It shook me. A 45-year-old single, childless woman, Natalie Langham, took her own life in March, because her life had…3 min read·Oct 30, 2020--2--2
Clair WoodwardAnother caterwauling competitionToday, the BBC announced a new gameshow. “TV presenter and comedian Paddy McGuinness will soon be taking the reins of the brand-new…4 min read·Oct 14, 2020----
Clair WoodwardAge against the machine“Why the over 50’s have to get bloody angry so we can help the kids in the long run7 min read·Oct 1, 2020----
Clair WoodwardSebastian Horsley: Ten years onI’m not going to write anything new on the 10th anniversary of his death, just republish a piece I wrote on my Urban Woo blog on the day…4 min read·Jun 17, 2020----
Clair WoodwardPost-Corona arts will have to go beyond the broadsheetsAt least the virus that could crush the arts in Britain has the alliterative sense to start with a ‘c’, meaning that I can write the…6 min read·May 22, 2020----
Clair Woodward“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”Honoré de Balzac5 min read·May 5, 2020--2--2
