Natasha Walter

My next book, Feminism for a World on Fire, is out next May. In it, I’m honest about the challenges that women are facing, from misogyny to the climate emergency - but I also look at how women are still defending our rights and trying to build a better world…

Lots of people are saying that today marks the largest mass arrest in Britain. Not quite. Back on 17 Sept 1961, my mum helped organise this demo where over 1000 were arrested for sitting down in Trafalgar Square. If we don’t want today’s resistance to be forgotten, let’s not forget yesterday’s.

I am genuinely shocked at Labour’s move to deny access to citizenship to refugees who came here by irregular routes. I am thinking of so many people I know who had no choice but to take those routes. From the young woman I know who was imprisoned and tortured in Ethiopia and came by small boat

We don’t just live in a world where rapists and misogynists are tolerated. We now live in a world where rapists and misogynists have all the political power and will confidently protect and amplify one another in defiance of the law. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

So glad to hear today from @viragopress.bsky.social that Feminism for a World on Fire is being reprinted. We keep hearing that political non fiction is dead. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all the readers who are bucking the trend and buying the beautiful hardback. 🔥

Feminism for a World on Fire is 99p on kindle right now. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

This is so, so good and so, so troubling on the current crisis of the Green Party and why it matters. I came into the party for, as John says, that 'mixture of radical, empathetic social democracy & urgency about the fate of the planet', now being lost to shrill 'flimsy, pious gesture politics'.

Jane Doe is being harassed and threatened offline and online. Those who profit, from X to YouTube to Substack, should be held accountable.

On political parties and antisemitism. Worth remembering this Yougov/CAAS poll carried out in 2025. On the statement: 'Jewish people chase money more than other people do.' Green supporters agree 7%. Reform 24%. Conservative 17%. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/CA...

It’s much much harder now to be an anti racist than it is to be a racist. That’s one of the things I learned from talking to Rachel Marsh, who has been doxxed and abused for standing up to the far right. www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...

I spoke to Rachel Marsh, the Piddington resident who courageously spoke out against the far right, and has received doxxing and abuse as a result. What does her treatment tell us about where Britain is heading - and what we need to do now? www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...

Another day, another article about staying out of politics from a Times writer. As so many Times columnists express ever more grim xenophobia, its cultural writers have been busy explaining exactly why politics aren't really that important. Feels political to me. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Allison Pearson in the Telegraph is celebrating people who want to shoot asylum seekers. As she says, things could turn dark very quickly. And why is that? Because more and more people are spreading this kind of hate and fear.

'The fiery feminist book I can't stop thinking about.. the most vital book of the year' Wow, thank you to @jamieklingler.bsky.social for this positive and vivid review of Feminism for a World on Fire in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/jamie-klingl...