#emmabrockes — Public Fediverse posts
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Digested week: royal hairlines – Prince George’s hair has such brio as he starts at Eton | Emma Brockes
By Emma BrockesPlus, your toilet flush can give you norovirus, AI doom-mongering and a drag Ann Droid
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/11/digested-week-prince-george-hair-eton
#PrinceGeorge #AIartificialintelligence #Monarchy #UKnews #ElizabethHolmes #ElonMusk #TheGuardian #EmmaBrockes
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Ridiculed by the press – and now King Charles is joining in. Sorry, Harry, but what did you expect? | Emma Brockes
By Emma BrockesThe Sussexes must have hoped for a warm welcome. Then they read the king’s delicately savage letter about ‘private citizens’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/10/harry-king-charles-press-sussex-letter
#PrinceHarry #MeghantheDuchessofSussex #Monarchy #UKnews #KingCharlesIII #TheGuardian #EmmaBrockes
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An Unexpected Life by Gloria Steinem review – a fitting tribute to a feminist icon
By Emma BrockesThe activist’s memoir, due to be published this month, now stands as a posthumous testament to her remarkable life
#Autobiographyandmemoir #Books #Culture #GloriaSteinem #TheGuardian #EmmaBrockes
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The September reset is real. I’m about to become a better person, flaxseed by flaxseed | Emma Brockes
By Emma BrockesSmall changes are what I’m aiming for – 10-minute workouts, cleaning out my handbag. Then I’m less likely to have failed come October
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/03/september-reset-better-person-workout-october
#Autumn #Newyear #Lifeandstyle #Environment #Healthwellbeing #UKnews #Mentalhealth #Health #TheGuardian #EmmaBrockes
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Digested week: Is there anything sadder than the end of summer? | Emma Brockes
By Emma BrockesPlus, views from the Cotswolds of Harry and Meghan’s return, and the embarrassing anachronism that is Ali G
#Schools #Musicals #SachaBaronCohen #PrinceHarry #MeghantheDuchessofSussex #TheGuardian #EmmaBrockes
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Goodbye, Dolly Parton: a gay icon whose appeal reached across age, class and politics, and into the Maga heartlands | Emma Brockes
By Emma BrockesStraight women loved her, so did Eminem. Even Donald Trump found something nice to say. Her allure had no boundaries and was truly unique
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/26/goodbye-dolly-parton-socialists-maga-unique
#DollyParton #LGBTQrights #USnews #Music #Culture #TheGuardian #EmmaBrockes
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Relax, everyone: Elon Musk has a mantra to make the climate crisis go away | Emma Brockes
By Emma BrockesIt’s simple, says the SpaceX boss – according to something called the ‘Kardashev scale’, we just have to move energy production ‘off-planet’
#ElonMusk #Technology #UKnews #Worldnews #Climatecrisis #Energy #Thesuperrich #SiliconValley #MarkZuckerberg #SteveJobs #TheGuardian #EmmaBrockes
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Digested week: Humid New York or London’s oven-blast heat? Tough one to call
By Emma BrockesPlus, heartbreakingly brilliant Cats: the Jellicle Ball, summer reads and Taylor Swift’s low-key wedding
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/14/digested-week-humid-new-york-london-oven-blast-heat
#NewYork #Extremeheat #England #AndrewLloydWebber #Musicals #Culture #USnews #Theatre #UKnews #Worldnews #Books #TaylorSwift #TheGuardian #EmmaBrockes
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Should I try the ‘18 summers’ parenting trend? Only if I want to ruin the school holidays | Emma Brockes
By Emma BrockesLong days with nothing to do is the whole point of summer. Turning it into a ‘making memories’ exercise is creepy and controlling
#Parentsandparenting #Family #Instagram #TikTok #Socialmedia #Lifeandstyle #Technology #Schoolholidays #UKnews #USnews #TheGuardian #EmmaBrockes
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I’m torn by the hard hat v graduation cap debate. Is it wrong that I want my kids to go to university? | Emma Brockes
By Emma BrockesAs Andy Burnham intervenes, it’s clear that the shine is coming off higher education. But is society ready for this mindshift? Am I?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/30/kids-university-andy-burnham-higher-education
#Highereducation #Education #Parentsandparenting #UKnews #Universities #Careers #TheGuardian #EmmaBrockes
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In a fractious, divided world, I think I know why Pride is the hottest show in town | Emma Brockes
By Emma BrockesThe 2014 film was only a modest success – but now the musical’s message of gay rights and solidarity feels both outlandish and full of hope
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/23/divided-world-pride-hot-show-film-musical
#Pride #NationalTheatre #Pride #UKnews #Theminersstrike198485 #TheGuardian #EmmaBrockes
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Digested week: So long primary school, it’s going to be hard – for me | Emma Brockes
By Emma BrockesPlus, Trump pays out to E Jean Carroll, somnolent Little House on the Prairie, and why I’ll be avoiding salad in the US
#Primaryschools #EJeanCarroll #DonaldTrump #Legionnairesdisease #UKnews #USnews #Netflix #Schools #Society #TheGuardian #EmmaBrockes
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I hoped that the headline was inviting me to a better column by #EmmaBrockes than her usual. Sadly not.
Even with the open goal of an opportunity to slap #TonyBlair, Emma was still boring. But still, #TheGuardian gave her any eye-catching headline, which was kind.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/18/tony-blair-jesus-pm-channel-4-documentary
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Digested week: Finally, it’s Wuthering Heights discourse time!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/digested-week-finally-its-wuthering-heights-discourse-time?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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#Epstein #misogyny #EmmaBrockes
"As the Epstein case shows, Trump’s Maga faithful care about only one kind of sex-crime victim
E Jean Carroll won her case, but in Trumpland the only sex offences that matter are committed by paedophiles with links to Democrats
On Monday, Donald Trump appeared in two, unrelated stories involving the sexual abuse of women. The first was a ruling by the US federal court of appeals, upholding an earlier judgment in which the president was found liable for $83.3m in damages for defaming the writer E Jean Carroll – a woman whom, it was ruled in civil court in 2023, had been sexually abused by Trump. On the same day, Trump’s alleged contribution to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s 'birthday book' was shared by Democrats on social media in the form of a lewd drawing the president denied having made. The E Jean Carroll news caused no public inconvenience for Trump; the Epstein story went up like a mushroom cloud in what has become the most politically dangerous episode of his presidency.
What, exactly, is the difference then between the sexual abuse of E Jean Carroll, for which Trump has been found liable in a civil court, and the trafficking and abuse of victims by Epstein, in which there is no direct evidence of Trump’s involvement? For that matter, why does Trump’s record of gross references to grabbing women 'by the pussy' and calling them 'fat' and 'ugly' elicit barely a shrug from supporters, while his friendship with Epstein, a man referred to in the press, variously, as the 'billionaire paedophile', the 'paeodophile financier', and, surely coming down the pike at some point, the 'hell-based paedophile money manager', has triggered not only fury among the Maga faithful but accusations of a Trump cover-up?
Trump people would argue it’s a question of degree: Epstein occupies the worst and most taboo category of sex offender – a child abuser, in which no grey area exists. This assumes the existence, within Maga circles, of a continuum ranging from paedophile sex trafficking (very bad), through other categories of sex offending (less bad but still quite bad), to 'date rape' and the whole of #MeToo (lot of fuss about nothing). But this isn’t how Trump supporters have calibrated their outrage. Instead, what we have seen is mass, Maga hysteria over Epstein, in which even the likes of Tucker Carlson have made veiled accusations against Trump, and complete indifference to every other accusation made by women against the president.
It is a feature of misogyny, of course, that the flipside of abusing women and curtailing their rights is selective sentimentalisation. Animating the Maga movement is the desire for a return to traditional gender roles and pronatalism, a force driven, one assumes, by a sense of frustrated male entitlement that has built up over decades of gains made by the women’s movement. A hatred of women as extreme as the one seen within the current Republican movement requires a moral counterweight. And what better source of moral clarity – what starker moral issue, one that brooks no dissent or equivocation from anyone on either side – than the defence of abused girls? In the rightwing media, the only stories relished as much as those about Epstein’s crimes, are ones about violent offences committed by immigrants."
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s ‘young, eccentric billionaire’ shtick was just another part of the grift
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/05/sam-bankman-fried-eccentric-billionaire-shtick-elizabeth-holmes-billy-mcfarland?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Australia’s huge python makes me appreciate queues and bad weather
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/01/australia-huge-python-appreciate-queues-bad-weather?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Men, want to optimise yourselves with science? Then you need the help of neuroscience bro Andrew Huberman
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/31/bro-andrew-huberman-wellness-podcast-newsletter-beard-men?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Perverse as it sounds, Donald Trump in a prison cell may be the worst possible outcome
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/09/donald-trump-prison-cell-campaign-for-us-president?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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With my kids away, I’m expected to relax – but I’m too busy cyberstalking them
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/03/kids-camp-cyberstalk-empty-nest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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It rained every day, but our 1970s-style English seaside holiday was pure delight
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/01/it-rained-every-day-but-our-1970s-style-english-seaside-holiday-was-pure-delight?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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