Helen Barrett
Helen Barrett is a writer and editor based in London
Floating buildings at the Biennale
18th Venice Biennale Architettura, 20 May-26 November 2023
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Doublespeak about assisted suicide
The campaign for assisted suicide is distinctly Orwellian
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks