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Martha Gill

Martha Gill is an Observer columnist

July 2024

  • Lucy Letby has been given 15 life sentences.

    Why do we find it hard to believe that the smiling nurse Lucy Letby was a serial killer?

    Martha Gill
    The nurse’s case shows the dangers of believing that women like her could not possibly commit murder

June 2024

  • Opioid pain killers<br>close up of a group of white tablets with an out of focus prescription bottle in the background

    Britain is on the brink of an opioid crisis. Punishing addicts won’t work

    Martha Gill
    It’s time to abandon cruel and costly policies that merely satisfy a severe, moralistic approach to drugs and their users
  • Coca Cola, I'd like to buy the world a coke, advert, 1971

    Woke capitalism is not to be sneered at. Gen Z is a mighty force for change

    Martha Gill
    Young people don’t want prospective employers to merely pay lip service to their liberal social values

    • #MeToo men want to be forgiven, but what of the careers of their casualties?

      Martha Gill

    • D-day deserter Rishi Sunak didn’t do his duty, so why should gen Z be expected to do theirs?

      Martha Gill

    • Filthy lucre is everywhere, but book festivals are an easy target for protesters’ fury

      Martha Gill

May 2024

  • Dominic Mckenzie The Observer Comment Disaster Prep web version

    Biohazards, Putin, extremism… we’ll need more than a few tins of beans

    Martha Gill
    Oliver Dowden’s advice on stockpiling forgets that co-operation is vital if we are to stand a chance against modern threats
  • Illustration of The Portal as a giant toilet. By Dominic Mckenzie

    Grinding our bums, flashing our boobs: the internet is making juveniles of us all

    Martha Gill
    When people were offered a window between New York and Dublin, puerile behaviour beat bridging worlds
  • Dom Mckenzie The Observer Comment Mobiles at concerts web version

    Live concerts have the power to delight – let’s try to forget about our phones

    Martha Gill
    All praise to a classical singer for last week’s rebellion against a sea of illuminated screens

April 2024

  • Close-up of Angela Rayner's face as she delivers a speech

    Tony Blair had it, Boris Johnson too... the quality that wins Angela Rayner support despite her gaffes

    Martha Gill
  • artist's palette with oil paints

    Mental health is a measure of success, not a reason for politicians to sneer

    Martha Gill
  • Illustration of smartphone/portcullis coming down on child's hand

    One thing stops us from prising teens from their phones: peer pressure

    Martha Gill
  • The recent introduction of voter identification at polling stations has eased the country in the direction of ID cards.

    Jacob Rees Mogg is wrong: Britons do want ID cards

    Martha Gill

March 2024

  • Germany is tightening its laws on the breeding of dachshunds, pictured wearing a bow tie, with traits that may cause suffering.

    Cute, cuddly, and often crippled: look where the love of dogs has taken the British

    Martha Gill
    From dachshunds to pugs, our canine friends are bred to better serve as emotional crutches or status symbols
  • VITA AND VIRGINIA 2018 Mirror Productions film with Gemma Arterton at right as Vita Sackville-West and Elizabeth Debicki as Virginia Woolf<br>KG4GY2 VITA AND VIRGINIA 2018 Mirror Productions film with Gemma Arterton at right as Vita Sackville-West and Elizabeth Debicki as Virginia Woolf

    Free speech warriors take note, if film censors can move with the times, you can too

    Martha Gill
    As a fascinating film rating survey shows, what is deemed taboo simply shifts with different mores

    • Britain is great in a crisis, but useless in a slump. Just take a look at the NHS

      Martha Gill

    • Can’t read a map or add up? Don’t worry, we’ve always let technology do the boring stuff

      Martha Gill

    • Millennials will be the richest generation ever, but who gets that wealth is down to luck

      Martha Gill

February 2024

  • Dom Mckenzie The Observer Comment Junk Food Addiction web version

    Like cigarettes, junk food should come with a warning: ‘Can kill’

    Martha Gill
  • A group of young people sitting on the grass in a park, with the glare of the sun blurring their faces

    Here’s to hanging out with friends, a splendidly pointless pastime we’re at risk of losing

    Martha Gill
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