Jenny Hjul

Edinburgh

Journalist at Freelance

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Articles

Labour must do more to champion the arts

6 days ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

Jennie Lee at the Labour party conference in Brighton, 1962 ( via Alamy/ 2Y6ER5K)Labour’s mission to “turbocharge” the arts is yet to take off and hopes that the new government would reverse the cultural decline under years of Tory rule appear to have been over-optimistic.
On Greenery, Blair gets it right again

1 week ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

Tony Blair’s intervention in the net zero debate this week took the political establishment by surprise, but not because he wasn’t talking sense – even Labour-supporting unions agreed with him. Yet, just ahead of a by-election - which Labour went on to narrowly lose to Reform - and local council elections, the timing of his attack on his party’s "doomed to fail" energy policy was considered odd.
Trust Shakespeare to reveal the mystery of marriage

2 weeks ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

The discovery of a lost Shakespeare letter has left biographers with a “horrible problem”, say scholars, because it busts the myth that the playwright’s marriage was an unhappy one. The accepted narrative that Anne Hathaway was an uneducated woman who spent her days in Stratford-upon-Avon while William was making his fame and fortune in London, now seems false.
Starmer must accept new reality of gender ruling

3 weeks ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

Susan Smith and Marion Calder, directors of For Women Scotland, outside the Supreme Court in London (via Alamy/ 3APA36N)Let there be no doubt that the ruling by the Supreme Court that a woman is defined by biology alone marks a seismic change in British life.
Harry is more at home in a war zone than in Britain

1 month ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

Prince Harry’s surprise visit to meet the war wounded in Ukraine on Thursday was in stark contrast to his earlier appearance in public this week, in court for the latest showdown over his security arrangements. Before his departure from Britain for a new life in the US five years ago, Harry was most in his element among veterans, and helping the injured is still seen as his best work.
RIP Just Stop Oil, you protested too much

1 month ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

The announcement by Just Stop Oil that it has, well, just stopped because it has achieved its aims will likely bemuse fellow eco warriors who thought the climate crisis was ongoing. The group, which became known for throwing soup at priceless art works and disrupting traffic, said it would cease high-profile protests after its chief demand, to end new oil and gas extraction, is now government policy.
Streeting is right to challenge the mental health bandwagon

1 month ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

Wes Streeting is nothing if not a brave politician. He already had a reputation for speaking his mind, and quite a lot of sense, on a range of toxic issues, from assisted dying to banning puberty blockers. This week the Health Secretary broached the minefield of mental health, telling the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg there is an ‘overdiagnosis’ of mental health conditions.
Nicola Sturgeon's demise has been as steep as her rise

2 months ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

As she announced she was quitting the political arena, Nicola Sturgeon took many people by surprise. Not because she was finally going, having decided not to stand for re-election next year, but because she was still there. Her dramatic exit as first minister two years ago, before being arrested as part of an ongoing fraud inquiry over SNP finances, brought her nearly nine years in power to an end and the political obituarists got to work.
Charles rises royally to the diplomatic challenge

2 months ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

During Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, Democrats held up “No kings” signs to mock the president’s creepingly authoritarian rule. But this is one era in the country’s history when Americans may look enviously across the Atlantic and wish they did have a king to smooth their troubled waters. Especially a king whose soft skills are so far proving to be something of a healing balm in the growing crisis in international relations.
Birbalsingh is right to challenge middle-class "gentle parenting"

2 months ago | reaction.life | Jenny Hjul

There are few conversations as potentially explosive as those that dare to broach the subject of another’s parenting skills. We would sooner call out our friends’ and siblings’ drinking habits than suggest they are raising unruly, obnoxious children. But thankfully, the woman stuck with the moniker "Britain’s strictest headteacher" has few qualms about tackling no-go topics.