Karen Ingala Smith
Karen Ingala Smith is CEO of nia, a charity supporting women subjected to sexual and domestic violence and abuse, including prostitution; and author of Defending Women’s Spaces. She tweets at @K_IngalaSmith
The sex trade is inherently unsafe
Commodifying women’s bodies perpetuates violence
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose