Victoria Smith
Victoria Smith is a feminist writer, with a particular interest in motherhood and intersections of misogyny and ageism. She is the author of Hags, on the demonisation of middle-aged women, and her new book Unkind, on how “be kind” entrenches sexism, is published in February. She tweets at @glosswitch
Should puberty be optional?
Girls deserve a better deal growing up — but avoiding puberty isn’t the answer
Serial killer self-ID
Men who kill women shouldn’t get to define themselves
Whose day is it today?
We’ve hit on the perfect way of denying women a social and intellectual heritage
Much ado about mothers
Mumsnet has been airing the trans lobby’s dirty laundry
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
