Joan Smith
Joan Smith is a novelist, essayist, columnist and campaigner for human rights. Her latest book is Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists (riverrun, 2019). She tweets at @polblonde
Prisons must be single-sex spaces
The House of Lords has failed to pass an amendment to ensure female prisoners’ safety
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
