About the Author

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Joan Smith is known for her lively and controversial columns in the Independent, Independent on Sunday, Tribune and the Evening Standard. She contributes to the Times and Sunday Times, and appears on such BBC current affairs programmes as Today, Woman's Hour and The World Tonight. Her books include the best-sellers Misogynies and Moralities, as well as five crime novels. She is a human rights activist and has advised the Foreign Office on free expression issues around the world, and is a patron of the National Secular Society.