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Mary Wakefield

Mary Wakefield is commissioning editor of The Spectator.

How playing Pokémon Go nearly made me lose my mind

Mary Wakefield 30 July 2016 9:00 am

Monday morning: one hand trapped beneath the fat and guzzling midget, with the other I idly opened the gates of…

What’s to blame for a generation of desperation?

Mary Wakefield 16 July 2016 9:00 am

Youth is wasted on the young, for the most part, and thank God for that. There’s nothing grislier than a…

The day that Brexit camped in my kitchen

Mary Wakefield 18 June 2016 9:00 am

On Thursday last week, as the baby and I were moving in our usual slow circles around the house, from…

Stop lecturing fatties – it’s really not their fault

Mary Wakefield 4 June 2016 9:00 am

I’ve noticed for some time now that thin people, genuinely slim ones, have a secret loathing of fatties. Kindly though…

Why is Obama so obsessed with transgender toilet rights?

Mary Wakefield 21 May 2016 9:00 am

Who’d have thought that one of Obama’s last great battles would be over toilets? Last week he issued a strict…

I used to back Jeremy Hunt’s digital NHS plan. Now I know it’s a disaster

Mary Wakefield 7 May 2016 9:00 am

My baby and I excel at blood tests. He (tiny, jaundiced) stretches out naked under the hospital’s hot cot-lamps like…

The scan said my baby wouldn’t live. It was wrong

Mary Wakefield 26 March 2016 9:00 am

When my unborn baby was a five-month-old fetus, twisting about in the internal dark, he was given a death sentence…

The sad decline of the teenage snog

Mary Wakefield 27 February 2016 9:00 am

Sometimes I sit my nieces down and treat them to tales of dating in the dark ages, before iPhones arrived…

I, robot. You, unemployed

Mary Wakefield 16 January 2016 9:00 am

One evening last autumn, four experts in the field of artificial intelligence arrived in Westminster with an urgent message for…

Am I a brave cult survivor, too?

Mary Wakefield 12 December 2015 9:00 am

When I was 21, I lived with a cult for a year. It was a commune really, a tight-knit group…

The Vicar of Baghdad: 'I've looked through the Quran trying to find forgiveness... there isn’t any.'

Mary Wakefield 21 November 2015 9:00 am

Exiled to Hampshire by Isis bombs, saintly Canon Andrew White itches to go back to the Middle East

Isis takes its British schoolgirl jihadis seriously. Why don’t we?

Mary Wakefield 10 October 2015 9:00 am

When the first schoolgirls ran away to Isis I had some sympathy for them — at least, I could see…

Is our only choice to be cynics or suckers?

Mary Wakefield 26 September 2015 8:00 am

It’s all the rage to mistrust the powerful these days, to say politicians are scum, or all bankers are selfish.…

Warning! Can seriously damage your health

The contagious madness of the new PC

Mary Wakefield 29 August 2015 9:00 am

Obsessive searching for hurt and offence will create it where once it never existed

‘Not to worry, just a gang killing’: the mantra of the metropolitan middle classes

Mary Wakefield 1 August 2015 9:00 am

Another stabbing in my new neighbourhood, not with an axe or with a samurai sword this time, but a machete.…

Are schoolgirls still fair game for teachers?

Mary Wakefield 20 June 2015 9:00 am

Mr Malcolm Layfield, the former violin teacher at Chetham’s music school, will have been celebrating this week after being found…

Eritrean migrants face many dangers. Are we one of them?

Mary Wakefield 6 June 2015 9:00 am

A few weeks ago someone very dear to me passed on a question about The Spectator, asked them by a…

In praise of the pit bull terrier

Mary Wakefield 9 May 2015 9:00 am

Last night I saw a woman dancing with a pit bull terrier. It was about 9 p.m. and her curtains…

Original sin makes us better people. I wish Muslims believed in it

Mary Wakefield 11 April 2015 9:00 am

These days, on the subject of Islam, non-Muslims have mostly divided into two camps — though there’s a little wandering…

How do bright schoolgirls fall for jihadis? The same way they fall for Justin Bieber

Mary Wakefield 28 February 2015 9:00 am

How could they? How could girls brought up in the wealthy West abandon their families and their own bright futures…

Do I really care about Ebola? Do you? Does Oxfam?

Mary Wakefield 31 January 2015 9:00 am

It’s strange how quickly we all forgot about Ebola. Speak for yourself, you might say — and I will. Until…

The real reason GPs are grumpy: the robots are coming for them

Mary Wakefield 17 January 2015 9:00 am

There’s something wrong with the relationship between patients and their GPs. I’ve spent much of this winter in my local…

Are old fairy stories too scary for kids?

Mary Wakefield 13 December 2014 9:00 am

Moving house, stacking books in boxes, I came across a clutch of fairy books, Andrew Lang’s folk tales from around…

Do you want to go to Mars with Elon Musk?

Mary Wakefield 29 November 2014 10:40 am

In the next decade or so, Elon Musk plans to fly people to the red planet. Should you go?

Patriotism isn’t uncivilised - it’s what makes civilisation possible

Mary Wakefield 22 November 2014 9:00 am

Is it racist to be patriotic? Is patriotism, by definition, small-minded and exclusive? When you strip away the onion layers…

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