Sarah Ditum

Good morning and happy publication day to me, because ☠️TOXIC☠️ is now on sale! It's been called "necessary and incisive" (@CCriadoPerez), "clever" (Adam Curtis) and "a Molotov cocktail hurled at the feet of celebrity culture" (@helenlewis) - and you can buy it today 🔥

It still concerns me that the only direct consultation with marginalised groups on the #AssistedDyingBill has been the tiny bits I’ve done I summarise the key findings here MPs must not take the silencing of these groups as reassurance #AssistedDying @politicshome

I went to a party a couple of weeks ago and was amazed slash delighted that the main thing people wanted to talk to me about was... WEIGHT LIFTING. Thank you, the Times, for getting me to review two books about the big swole topic of the moment thetimes.com/article/94f89b…

The Sandie Peggie case is but a microcosm of the macro failings apparent across a public sector where immovable stupidity meets unstoppable incompetence. thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

Lena Dunham derangement syndrome was a very real condition among women in the 2010s; who wouldn't crack under that kind of hate? unherd.com/2025/07/did-to…

Some celebrities, like the Kardashians, mastered the art of turning media hate into publicity. But for Lena Dunham, that wasn’t so easy, writes @sarahditum 👇 buff.ly/OrVwDGm

‘What IS the charge?! Being a path?! A succulent Salt Path?!’

Yesterday, Starmer looked callous. More than that, he looked utterly inhuman. Read @sarahditum on a miserable PMQs👇 buff.ly/cA0hHr5

The founder of Tattle, an influencer gossip site, is in fact an influencer — a man pretending to be a woman. @sarahditum👇 buff.ly/ktts74w

I've thought for several years that Stella Creasy was a publicity-chasing nightmare, but her deranged effort to make herself the queen of progressives by politicising abortion (and taking a position too radical for Bpas!!) really is beyond unherd.com/2025/06/stella…

‘Anyone who truly feared the rise of the reactionaries would see the UK’s abortion settlement as something too precious to be gambled with.’ @sarahditum 👇 buff.ly/4TMNg1I

“What sounds like two guitars overlaid in the studio is all coming from him” — @sarahditum on the brilliance of Richard Thompson thecritic.co.uk/issues/june-20…

Sabrina Carpenter and the sex wars thetimes.com/article/051736…

‘What never seems to change is the disdain and cruelty aimed at the people — the women — who are expected to have the babies.’ @sarahditum on pro-natalism👇 buff.ly/rtNXOFD

“It’s extraordinary, but barring the most extreme hold-outs, everyone now appears to have believed the same as me all along” — @sarahditum on how things have changed since she was booed for not declaring her pronouns thecritic.co.uk/issues/june-20…

Farage has injected natalism into British politics - quite the cynical turnaround for the originator of the two-child benefit cap unherd.com/2025/06/nigel-…