No, it’s not just you. We’re all—nation-states included—in over our heads.
Helen Dale
This isn't a world-historical crisis but it will enormously amplify and accelerate trends already present in our world.
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.
The Conservative Party’s immense election victory means it must bind up the wounds the referendum and subsequent polarisation opened in the body politic.
Billed as the most significant election since Clement Attlee’s 1945 Labour landslide, the outcome will determine whether Brexit happens at all.
What happens when a hero in Australian rugby speaks out about his faith?
Helen Dale discusses Brexit, the English Constitution, and the future of British politics.
Parliament is the only body with the legitimacy to settle Brexit and restore a functional relationship between the political class and the electors.
Britain is no longer in a constitutional crisis, it's in a constitutional swamp.
Helen Dale reviews two new books that investigate the explosion of economic growth and what constitutes it.
While Boris is immensely popular with the electorate, he infuriates many metropolitan liberals and other elements of the moral-peacocking classes.
Is there really a resurgent modern variation of Roman paganism present in developed liberal democracies, including the United States?
The Tories, the civil service, and Labour are tripping over each other and falling down separate flights of stairs while the nation watches in dismay.
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