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
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
