Dr Arabella Byrne
Dr Arabella Byrne is a freelance journalist and writer. She is writing a novel based on the Great War diaries of Jacques Rivière.
Vaccination narratives
The evolution of vaccine rollouts and the reliance on mass-media, advertising and celebrity cameos
Today’s rubbish, tomorrow’s artefact
How museums are curating the coronavirus pandemic
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions