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Helen Dale won the Miles Franklin Award for her first novel, The Hand that Signed the Paper, and read law at Oxford and Edinburgh. Her most recent novel, Kingdom of the Wicked, has been shortlisted for the Prometheus Prize for science fiction. She writes for a number of outlets, including The Spectator, The Australian, Standpoint, and Quillette. She lives in London and is on Twitter @_HelenDale

March 4, 2020|Brexit, Douglas Murray, Harry Miller, Miller v. College of Policing & Anor, trans rights

The Great Trans Rights Post-Brexit Looniness

by Helen Dale|

Former police officer Harry Miller arrives outside the High Court, London, on Friday, February 14, 2020 ahead of a ruling on the landmark challenge to police guidance on hate incidents against transgender people. (Victoria Jones/PA Wire URN:50324826/Press Association via AP Images).

There is a foot-stamping petulance to the phrases “trans rights are human rights” and “trans women are women,” as though saying either makes it so.

January 23, 2020|Conservatism, Identity Politics, Roger Scruton

Learning from Roger Scruton

by Helen Dale|

Roger Scruton in his study, Wiltshire, England.

These are views that I now hold because Roger Scruton had been my teacher.

December 30, 2019|Benjamin Disraeli, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Conservative Party, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party

One Nation or Bust!

by Helen Dale|

No 10 Downing Street (Gov.UK)

The Conservative Party’s immense election victory means it must bind up the wounds the referendum and subsequent polarisation opened in the body politic.

December 10, 2019|

Brexit Panto

by Helen Dale|

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a visit to the Kent Event Centre, Maidstone, while on the election campaign trail. December 6, 2019.(Stefan Rousseau/PA, Press Association via AP Images)

Billed as the most significant election since Clement Attlee’s 1945 Labour landslide, the outcome will determine whether Brexit happens at all.

November 13, 2019|Australia, Australian Christian Lobby, Fair Work Act, Free Speech, GoFundMe, Israel Folau, Maria Folau, New Zealand, rugby

A Fair Go

by Helen Dale|

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - APRIL 06: Israel Folau of the Waratahs is tackled by Tom Robinson of the Blues during the round 8 Super Rugby match between the Blues and Waratahs at Eden Park on April 06, 2019 in Auckland, New Zealand (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images).

What happens when a hero in Australian rugby speaks out about his faith?

October 28, 2019|Boris Johnson, Brexit, English Constitution, European Union

Brexit Shenanigans and the Old English Constitution

by Helen Dale|

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks up as he meets with fundraisers for the Royal British Legion outside 10 Downing street on October 28, 2019. (Photo by ISABEL INFANTES/AFP via Getty Images)

Helen Dale discusses Brexit, the English Constitution, and the future of British politics.

October 1, 2019|Boris Johnson, Brexit, Prorogation, Royal Prerogative, UK Supreme Court

British Politics Gets a SCOTUS

by Helen Dale|

The Supreme Court LONDON, ENGLAND (4kclips at shutterstock.com)

Parliament is the only body with the legitimacy to settle Brexit and restore a functional relationship between the political class and the electors.

September 13, 2019|Boris Johnson, Brexit, Brexit Party, Fixed Term Parliaments Act, Jeremy Corbyn, John Bercow, Nigel Farage, Queen's Consent

Hell Is Fighting Brexit for All Eternity

by Helen Dale|

Anti-Brexit protest in London(Photo by Gina Power, shutterstock.com)

Britain is no longer in a constitutional crisis, it's in a constitutional swamp.

September 5, 2019|capitalism, China, Douglas Carswell, England, Progress v. Parasites, Rome, Stephen Davies, The Wealth Explosion

What Are the Engines of Progress?

by Helen Dale|

1876 lithograph (Everett Historical at shutterstock.com)

Helen Dale reviews two new books that investigate the explosion of economic growth and what constitutes it.

July 30, 2019|Boris Johnson, Brexit, burka, IEA, Maajid Nawaz, Sadiq Khan

The Adventures of Boris

by Helen Dale|

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - JULY 27: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a speech on domestic priorities at the Science and Industry Museum on July 27, 2019 (Photo by Rui Vieira - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

While Boris is immensely popular with the electorate, he infuriates many metropolitan liberals and other elements of the moral-peacocking classes.

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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