Joan Smith

Joan Smith is a novelist and columnist. She was previously Chair of the Mayor of London's Violence Against Women and Girls Board. Her book Unfortunately, She Was A Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women was published in November 2024.

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Joan Smith is a novelist and columnist. She was previously Chair of the Mayor of London's Violence Against Women and Girls Board. Her book Unfortunately, She Was A Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women was published in November 2024.

Starmer isn’t working for women

Joan Smith

30 Jan 2023

Why wasn’t PC David Carrick sacked?

Joan Smith

17 Jan 2023

Domestic abusers feed off crises

Joan Smith

14 Oct 2022

Why has Starmer banished feminists?

Joan Smith

26 Sep 2022

Cherie Blair’s class war

Joan Smith

25 Apr 2022

Keir Starmer is gaslighting women

Joan Smith

15 Mar 2022

Has Sadiq Khan sacrificed women?

Joan Smith

25 Feb 2022

Cressida Dick has failed women

Joan Smith

07 Feb 2022

Raquel Rosario Sánchez won’t be silenced

Joan Smith

01 Feb 2022

Why did Sadiq Khan’s office fire me?

Joan Smith

20 Aug 2021

Women don’t feel safe with Starmer

Joan Smith

12 May 2021

Forty years after the Ripper, women still aren’t safe

Joan Smith

17 Nov 2020

Keir Starmer’s woman problem

Joan Smith

22 Sep 2020

How offensive is Edinburgh Festival?

Joan Smith

14 Aug 2020

Pity the women locked in with their abusers

Joan Smith

27 Mar 2020

Our dangerous approach to misogyny

Joan Smith

08 Oct 2019

Why women are Carl Beech’s real victims

Joan Smith

30 Jul 2019

How toxic masculinity is tied to terrorism

Joan Smith

16 May 2019

Don’t base policy on moral panic

Joan Smith

14 Mar 2019

How America sanitised FGM

Joan Smith

28 Nov 2018