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Martha Gill

Martha Gill is an Observer columnist

April 2023

  • Rain Newton-Smith, new head of the Confederation of British Industry, speaks at the CBI conference in Birmingham on 21 November 2022.

    There’s good reason why strong female role models deter other women from aiming for the top

    Martha Gill
  • London, UK. 5th August 2014 Used Nitrous Oxide Bulbs, Also know as Laughing Gas, It is used as a recreational drug and is not illegal for over 18's to purchase and use. Drug Charities are warning against using this legal high as it can be fatal. Lensca<br>E5T6W1 London, UK. 5th August 2014 Used Nitrous Oxide Bulbs, Also know as Laughing Gas, It is used as a recreational drug and is not illegal for over 18's to purchase and use. Drug Charities are warning against using this legal high as it can be fatal. Lenscap/Alamy Live News

    This crackdown on antisocial behaviour puts us at the mercy of curtain twitchers

    Martha Gill

March 2023

  • Succession’s Logan, Gerri and Marcia in the season one finale

    TV’s Succession doesn’t skewer the 1% – it hoodwinks us into accepting the status quo

    Martha Gill
  • Illustration shows a group of contemporary women standing on the pages of an open book, looking up at another group in historical dress

    Think women have never had it so good? You should take a look at medieval days

    Martha Gill
  • FRANCE-HEALTH-TIKTOK-OZEMPIC<br>This photograph taken on February 23, 2023, in Paris, shows the anti-diabetic medication "Ozempic" (semaglutide) made by Danish pharmaceutical company "Novo Nordisk". - On TikTok, the hashtag "#Ozempic" has reached more than 500 million views: this anti-diabetic medication is trending on the social network for its' slimming properties, a phenomenon that is causing supply shortages and worrying doctors. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP) (Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

    The obesity jab may save the food industry’s bacon, but should it?

    Martha Gill
  • ** WARNING: Contains Graphic Content ** GRABS: Instagram fitness model fights off would-be rapist as she works out alone in gym<br>Twenty-four-year-old Nashali Alma was working out in the gym in her Florida apartment building when a man knocked on the door. After she let him in, he attacked her. Alma is a competitive bodybuilder and she was able to fight off the attacker. The assailant, Xavier Thomas-Jones, was arrested the next day. Turns out, he also lives in the same building as Alma. The suspect was charged with sexual battery, false imprisonment, burglary, and kidnapping.

    Women aren’t always safe, even in gyms. But fear is a good way of reining them in

    Martha Gill

February 2023

  • A man puts a ring on the finger of a woman in a wedding dress

    Fewer people are marrying. That’s cause for celebration, not state intervention

    Martha Gill
  • woman working from home with baby in her arms

    Why a shortage of Mr Rights means single mothers hold the key to the falling birthrate

    Martha Gill

January 2023

  • Omega flagship store opening, San Francisco, USA - 18 Nov 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Casey Flanigan/REX/Shutterstock (12608724aq) Kaia Jordan Gerber and Cindy Crawford Omega flagship store opening, San Francisco, USA - 18 Nov 2021 Omega hosting dinner to celebrate the grand opening of San Francisco Flagship

    ‘Nepo babies’ claim their parentage is overblown. Truth is, they’re helped all the way

    Martha Gill
  • Chrissy Teigen

    Buccal fat removal is a new take on an old theme: a means to keep women in their place

    Martha Gill
  • Andrew Tate pictured on a yacht

    Andrew Tate isn’t feminism’s inadvertent bastard child. He’s sexism’s last gasp

    Martha Gill
  • The Duke of Sussex is interviewed by Tom Bradby in California on a range of subjects including his relationships with other members of the royal family.

    Under the ‘we pay, you entertain’ deal, Harry is now the hardest working royal

    Martha Gill

December 2022

  • Veronica Ryan at Tate Liverpool, the morning after she was awarded the 2022 Turner prize.

    At last the Turner prize gets it. Artists improve with age

    Martha Gill
    Veronica Ryan is the ‘oldest ever winner’ at 66. Here’s to more recognition of decades spent honing a skill

October 2022

  • Jimmy Carr Destroys Art for Channel 4

    Hitler’s watercolours are best ignored, but you have to reckon with the power of Eric Gill

    Martha Gill
    A planned show featuring works by the evil and corrupt has caused outrage, but it asks some useful questions
  • Ted Hughes, 1966 GNM Archive ref: JHB/2/1/49

    Even Ted Hughes has fallen to the sickly cult of the twee

    Martha Gill
    From the Queen to Robin Williams, sentimental images abound to help us through grief and avoid staring death in the face
  • This image released by Netflix shows Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe in a scene from Blonde.&nbsp;(Netflix via AP)

    If Blonde is a feminist film, why is Marilyn Monroe still being exploited?

    Martha Gill
    The movie, and TV shows like it, merely add women’s mental and physical suffering to the misogynist mix

September 2022

  • This England<br>Ep1: Boris Johnson wins the 2019 General Election as Covid 19 emerges in Asia and Europe Boris Johnson wins the 2019 General Election and prepares for Government. Covid 19 emerges in Wuhan and cases rise in China, then spread across Asia and to Europe. Boris prepares for Britain leaving the European Union while scientists monitor the spread of Covid. Dominic Cummings makes plans to shake up the Civil Service and reform how the Government operates. Boris spends time at Chevening and Chequers as Covid spreads around the world and storms hit the UK. The situation in Italy escalates as hospitals in the north struggle with Covid cases, meanwhile the first cases are reported in the UK.

    Political events now so quickly turn into TV drama that we risk confusing fact and fiction

    Martha Gill
    This England covers Boris Johnson’s time in office. But that was only yesterday...

August 2022

  • Shiv Roy stands arms folded at the bottom of a grand staircase

    ‘Girlboss’ used to suggest a kind of role model. How did it become a sexist putdown?

    Martha Gill
  • Dom Mckenzie The Observer Comment Post Cancel Culture web version for instagram

    It’s not that people are more sensitive these days. Some things just aren’t funny any more

    Martha Gill

July 2022

  • Dom Mckenzie The Observer Comment Tier 2 healthcare web version

    If British identity is bound up with the NHS, what do we lose in going private?

    Martha Gill
    Long waiting lists mean more Britons than ever are paying for their own treatment, causing a deal of soul searching
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