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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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
