Helen Dale

Helen Dale won the Miles Franklin Award for her first novel, The Hand that Signed the Paper, and was Senior Adviser to Australian Senator David Leyonhjelm. Follow her on Twitter @_HelenDale.

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Taking on the Offendotrons: a review of Russell Blackford's 'The Tyranny of Opinion'

I could bang on about offendotrons every week and have to resist the impulse.

Helen Dale

28 Jan 2019 · 15 min read

The Divided Kingdom

A belief in democracy, in the capacity for governance among “ordinary people,” and a distrust of cognitive elites is what definitively sets populists apart from fascists.

Helen Dale

4 Dec 2018 · 15 min read

The UK Labour Party and the System of Diversity

The Tribe is an articulate, scrupulously fair but nonetheless root-and-branch attack on the ‘system and administration of diversity’, not only in UK Labour but also in other British institutions, including the civil service and the BBC.

Helen Dale

6 Sep 2018 · 18 min read

My Unpopular Opinion: There Are Too Many Mediocre Artists

There are too many artists, too many people who want to be artists, most of them aren’t very good, and schools should focus on inculcating self-discipline rather than dopey ‘all must have prizes’ creativity.

Helen Dale

21 Aug 2018 · 4 min read

What if the Industrial Revolution Happened to Rome?

What, I wondered, would have happened had Jesus emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution?

Helen Dale

30 Nov 2017 · 7 min read

Cultural Appropriation Isn't Real

Being imaginative is more important for a writer than being from the “right” ethnic background or having the “right” experience.

Helen Dale

11 May 2017 · 6 min read

The Changeling — A Review of 'In Full Colour' by Rachel Doležal

What it does do – and why it deserves to be widely read – is raise a mass of awkward questions about religion, race, sex, and identity.

Helen Dale

27 Mar 2017 · 15 min read

The Runaway Executive

‘Everyone else has to march up East Street in the heat,’ he’d go on, ‘or make arrangements with my pupil’ (that pupil was me). ‘Why shouldn’t they?’

Helen Dale

20 Feb 2017 · 5 min read

Attack of the Offendotrons: Tyranny of the Flash Mob

The only way to head mobs off at the pass is for individuals and institutions to resist them.

Helen Dale

16 Jan 2017 · 4 min read