Helen Dale

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Reporter at the Packet Newspapers based in Falmouth, Cornwall. All views are my own.

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Rise of Reform - Helen Dale

5 days ago | lawliberty.org | Helen Dale

June 2, 2025 Farage’s political ascent is aided by both Tory and Labour ineptitude. “Always bet on self-interest, it’s the only horse that’s trying,” is one of my late dad’s lines, and I first heard it from him aged six or so. By that logic, Nigel Farage (leader of Reform UK) and Ed Davey (leader of the Liberal Democrats) are the only triers—respectively leading and running third in the horserace of UK politics—and the only two ponies gaining ground.
Australia’s Most Dangerous Export

2 months ago | futureofjewish.com | Helen Dale

Future of Jewish is the ultimate newsletter by and for people passionate about Judaism and Israel. Subscribe to better understand and become smarter about the Jewish world. This is a guest essay written by Helen Dale, a writer, lawyer, and political commentator. You can also listen to the podcast version of this essay on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, YouTube, and Spotify.
The Breakfast Club at 40 – Bradley J. Birzer

Mar 7, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Bradley J. Birzer |South Dakota |Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale

One of the most important but largely unsung heroes of the Reagan Era was movie-maker John Hughes. A close friend of P. J. O’Rourke, Hughes wrote, directed, and/or produced a whole slew of movies, including Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Pretty in Pink, to name a few. Born in Lansing, Michigan, and raised during his teenage years in a suburb of northern Chicago, Hughes’s career began with writing jokes for famous comedians as well as writing regularly for National Lampoon.
Socratic Wisdom for a Lonely Age – Zena Hitz

Mar 7, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Agnes Callard |Zena Hitz |Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale

The Elks, the Shriners, and the bowling leagues are too far gone to be mourned. Even our dining has become solitary if our cultural commentators are to be believed. Office communities breathe on life support, as do many churches. Face-to-face interaction of any kind, much less substantive conversation, is increasingly hard to come by. But who mourns the decline of philosophical conversation?
The Fraudulent Laboratory – Theodore Dalrymple

Mar 6, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Theodore Dalrymple |Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers

When I was young and naïve, the thought never occurred to me that what appeared in medical journals might be fraudulent. I knew that there had been scientific hoaxes, such as the Piltdown Man, and I knew that, man being fallible, mistakes were made. Papers in medical journals were often followed in the correspondence columns by lively debate over the interpretation of findings, which were seldom indisputable, especially when they involved complex statistics.
Budgeting for Fiscal Sanity – James C. Capretta

Mar 6, 2025 | lawliberty.org | JAMES CAPRETTA |Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers

If the 118th Congress is remembered at all, it will likely be for its ineffectiveness and dysfunction, which persisted until the merciful end. In its last days, as it rushed for the exits, it put off, once again, final decisions on federal agency budgets until at least mid-March (nearly six months into the current fiscal year). This delay included military spending, which has obvious security consequences.
Breaking the DEI Trance – Mike Gonzalez

Mar 5, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Mike Gonzalez |Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers

At the height of the fateful year of 2020, while Black Lives Matter activists roamed the streets of our cities, setting fire to buildings and shocking much of the country into weirdly accepting provable lies, I warned that America faced mass hysteria akin to the Salem witch trials.
Colliding with Wokeism – Robert C. Thornett

Mar 5, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Robert Thornett |Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale

In his 1859 treatise On Liberty, John Stuart Mill observed that one reason for protecting free speech is that there is value in arguing with false opinions. It brings about “the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error,” he wrote. For example, arguing with “Flat Earthers” helps to bring about a better understanding of geodesy, the science of measuring and representing Earth’s shape.
The Rise and Fall of Woke? – Law & Liberty Editors

Mar 5, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Mike Gonzalez |Robert Thornett |Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale

Five years ago, cities across America faced an upheaval inspired by an ideology now called “wokeism.” Combining progressive notions of social justice with critical race theory and calls for revolutionary political action, it rapidly became a major force in American life. Just as suddenly, though, it now seems that “wokeism” is fading away. In this symposium, two Law & Liberty contributors explore the origins and demise of this ideology.
A Reckoning for Teachers Unions – Frederick M. Hess

Mar 5, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Frederick M. Hess |Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers

March 5, 2025 There’s no way to sugarcoat this. During the pandemic, America’s schools failed students and families. In early March 2020, I woke each morning to a flood of calls from reporters asking about school closures even as my wife and I anxiously speculated about whether our kindergartener’s school would be open that day. Every parent remembers that feeling of confusion and helplessness. It was a lost-at-sea moment.