Victoria Smith

5th March is paperback publication day for Unkind - on how #BeKind might not, in fact, be making everyone more kind. Order it here! geni.us/UnkindOrder

🔥 Sophy Ridge SNAPS at Labour Victims Minister: “What the hell? Are r*pists not dangerous?” In the middle of a prison overcrowding crisis, Labour’s new early release scheme is letting thousands of inmates out early. Shockingly, r*pists and sexual offenders are NOT being excluded from this scheme! On Sky News this morning, Sophy Ridge put Victims Minister @catkinson80 squarely on the spot: “Why do you not exclude sexual offenders from the prisons early release scheme?” The minister offered no direct answer and immediately deflected to blame the Conservatives for the mess they inherited. Ridge, having already acknowledged that things weren’t great under the previous government, visibly lost patience and snapped: “I’ve just acknowledged the context. My question is why are you not excluding r*pists from the dangerous offenders? What the hell? They are dangerous aren’t they? Or are they not dangerous if they commit crimes against women?” This is the government’s own Victims Minister. The person meant to champion those harmed by crime could not or would not explain why predators who target women are being prioritised for early freedom. No reassurance for victims, no clear safeguarding plan, just the same tired deflection.

I wrote about Baroness Cass's latest defence of the puberty blockers trial because I can't get over how insane it is open.substack.com/pub/glosswitch…

Three things about Ann Widdecombe. A lingering horror at the manner of her death. And a reminder that her views on social issues very largely lost ground to changes in law and policy over her political lifetime. And that unlike her killer she accepted that in a democratic society

Amazing interview with the head of the American Anthropological Association: "So the idea that there are two sexes is just factually incorrect, and to force biological anthropologists to teach that is the equivalent of turning an astronomy department into an astrology department. So I don’t know why we’re debating that. You may not like it. I don’t know, maybe you want to kill babies that aren’t just XX presenting XX or XY presenting XY"

In 2021 in Spain, transactivists hung an effigy of the highest-ranking female politician there at the time, Carmen Calvo, because of her criticism of  proposed new self-ID legislation. It was done in a location connected with International Women’s Day. womansplaceuk.org/2021/02/23/con…

They used to chant that Posh Spice takes up the arse during the '98 World Cup, or that shes a slapper. To her face. She's there for her husband and kid just like she was back then. Shes earned lifetime rights to loathe football actually.

It's the pious sentence at the end that gets me. "Human rights are strongest ..." As if the institutions they'd smeared approached them in need of educating as opposed to a full retraction and apology

‘These are grubby tactics, ones which, far from challenging harassment, avoid any real engagement with why we have an environment in which predatory, sleazy men may indeed prosper.’ Read @glosswitch 👇 buff.ly/qX4YVOH

NEW BLOG We provide an archive of material associated with Amnesty International UK’s decision last week to publish defamatory material about a large number of UK groups who do not agree with its position on sex and self-declared gender. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2026/07/13/amn…

This warmed my heart more than I realized it would. The World Cup is a magical time, bringing old and new fans together and we truly get to see the best of humanity and heart as well. Thank you, Norway ♥️♥️♥️

On a thread devoted to the @amnesty report, a poster claims @bindelj is responsible for 'lynch squads' and 'murdering people'. This is unhinged stuff which shows the damage Amnesty has done.

You know what this idiotic Shamnesty report has brought out on X? A wondrous solidarity between all kinds of women and our allies. There is nothing more threatening to the establishment than the grassroots organising of women and yes these fools ARE the establishment.

Jfc does this idiot have a thing or 83,000 to learn about the global epidemic of male violence against women and girls. In the UK, one in 8 women killed by men are over 70 and 67% of women killed in burglaries are over 60, half of which involve overkill - gratuitous violence.

How dare she out-victim you by actually being denied the right to exist.

Here it's even happening after a woman dies at the hands of a man. If you're rejoicing in her suffering, well, then, she must deserve it. I also think there's a perverse degree of resentment from people whose whole identities revolve around being the biggest victim. >

Over the past decade, increasingly violent threats and fantasies of male violence against women have run alongside a kind of "audience priming" whereby anything is justified because your target has supposedly "denied your right to exist" >

This is the letter that Trans Widows Voices and @ChildrenOfTrans sent to @AmnestyUK regarding our inclusion on their little list.

Scottish feminists are on the frontline of the battle to preserve human rights and @AmnestyUK is not fit for purpose. My @scotonsunday column: scotsman.com/news/opinion/c…

17yo has his friends round for the football and I just hate that theyll be either really happy or really sad, and if it's the latter I'll be totally convinced it's because I did something 'unlucky' like either watch it or not watch it or watch it at the wrong moment