Fairfax columnist and ABC Drum presenter Julia Baird is drawn to forceful, opinionated public women.  Baird is writing a biography of Queen Victoria, and in a column this week she extolled outspoken feminist commentator Clementine Ford.

Baird lauds Ford for being a feminist flamethrower, scorching misogynistic trolls of social media wherever they can be exposed for the ugly characters they are. Ford ‘returns like with like, fire with fire, dirt with dirt.