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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
