Katya Sedgwick
Katya Sedgwick is a writer based in the San Francisco Bay area. Follow her at @KatyaSedgwick
Is the situation in Ukraine comparable to the siege of Leningrad?
There are more similarities than differences
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice
Abuse in the name of equality
How is it not obvious that women should be searched by women?
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Beyond mental health awareness
The roots of better mental health may lie deeper than we are willing to admit
The strange death of Cockney London
London’s white working class all but vanished, with little reporting or remark by press or politicians
The problem with football pundits
Why are we so often stuck with inarticulate ex-pros?
Behind the sofa government
Current Tory strategy consists in hiding and hoping the voters don’t notice the mess
Britain’s twilight war
The UK is fighting an unwinnable conflict in a world that it doesn’t understand, without plan or purpose
Parenthood erased
We must not forget the fact that children are begotten and not created