PinnedClair Woodward·Mar 16, 2021What’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…A response icon1A response icon1
PinnedClair Woodward·Oct 14, 2020What 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…
Clair Woodward·Jul 4, 2022Taxing 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…A response icon1A response icon1
Clair Woodward·Jan 11, 2021“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…A response icon1A response icon1
Clair Woodward·Oct 30, 2020Natalie 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…A response icon2A response icon2
Clair Woodward·Oct 14, 2020Another caterwauling competitionToday, the BBC announced a new gameshow. “TV presenter and comedian Paddy McGuinness will soon be taking the reins of the brand-new…
Clair Woodward·Oct 1, 2020Age against the machine“Why the over 50’s have to get bloody angry so we can help the kids in the long run
Clair Woodward·Jun 17, 2020Sebastian 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…
Clair Woodward·May 22, 2020Post-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…
Clair Woodward·May 5, 2020“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”Honoré de BalzacA response icon2A response icon2
