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Helen Dale joins the Law & Liberty Podcast to talk about Australia's sporting prowess and England's political turmoil.

Novelist and lawyer Helen Dale calls herself Australian literature's lone classical liberal. Believe her. The post “Not On Your Team, But Always Fair” appeared first on ColemanNation.

Callum, Carl, and Helen Dale discuss how the far right can be defeated, the criminal mind, and The Great Realignment in American politics.

Helen Dale joins Carl and Callum to discuss the details of Australia saying "no" to leftist subversion, Callum's personal jihad, and how the madcap ancaps are going for it in Argentina.

It may seem odd to describe a book that was published almost 30 years ago as highly topical. But the 1995 Miles Franklin Award winner, ‘The Hand That Signed The Paper', is just that.The book's author, Helen Dale, has since established herself as one of Australia's true polymaths. She has continued to produce magnificent novels, such as 'Kingdom of the Wicked', as well as casting a liberal lens over the issues of the day for Law & Liberty (where she is a Senior Writer), The Australian, Quillette and most notably of course, The Spectator Australia.Subscribe to Helen's Substack here.Follow Australiana on social media here.Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.

Helen Dale and Nick Buckley join Carl to discuss Sadiq Khan's new "Maaate" initiative, how the homeless are a moneymaking scheme for some people, and why women need to get back to work.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukHelen Dale is a lawyer, writer and novelist with an interest in the history of Roman law. We spoke about how Roman women were treated by legal system; how the Romans viewed issues like abortion; and we discussed whether we are becoming more Roman in our attitudes towards sexuality. In the extended part of the podcast, we talked about Helen's upbringing; why she decided to weigh into the gender critical debate and whether Helen would be best suited to a Roman or Christian world. You can find extended episodes, bonus episodes, and the MMM chat community at louiseperry.substack.com

Helen Dale joins Carl to discuss how woke is losing in Scotland, how the "far right" owns all good things, and how they're ruining Roald Dahl.

Helen Dale, lawyer and award-winning author of 3 novels, including The Hand that Signed the Paper, writes at Law & Liberty and Not On Your Team, But Always Fair. Her two-novel series Kingdom of the Wicked is an alternative history of Roman-occupied Judea in the first century and the arrest and trial of Yeshua ben Joseph, an enigmatic man with a large following, including some radical religious zealots. If you like literary and genre fiction—and Roman history—you won't be able to put these ones down. They've got soldiers, lawyers, terrorists, and biomechs; action, romance, legal proceedings, and great characters. Today on MindMatters we talk about the books and how Helen came to write them, blending Roman morality with modern technology, and the interesting directions that might have gone. Other topics: political systems and their compatibility with different nations and cultures, Lorenzo Warby's articles on Helen's Substack, a policy approach to countering Woke ideology, Cluster B's and ponerology in modern and historical politics, what Hannah Arendt got wrong about totalitarianism, and how lobbyists are the absolute worst.

Helen Dale, lawyer and award-winning author of 3 novels, including The Hand that Signed the Paper, writes at Law & Liberty and Not On Your Team, But Always Fair. Her two-novel series Kingdom of the Wicked is an alternative history of Roman-occupied Judea in the first century and the arrest and trial of Yeshua ben Yusuf, an enigmatic man with a large following, including some radical religious zealots. If you like literary and genre fiction — and Roman history — you won't be able to put...

Helen Dale, lawyer and award-winning author of 3 novels, including The Hand that Signed the Paper, writes at Law & Liberty and Not On Your Team, But Always Fair. Her two-novel series Kingdom of the Wicked is an alternative history of Roman-occupied Judea in the first century and the arrest and trial of Yeshua ben Yusuf, an enigmatic man with a large following, including some radical religious zealots. If you like literary and genre fiction — and Roman history — you won't be able to put...

Classical Liberal, celebrated author, retired lawyer, and Smart Person Helen Dale regales the Dorx with a history of "hate speech", citing Marbury vs. Madison, the Allport Scale, John Stuart Mill, entrenched judicial review, decolonization and anti-colonization movements, the pernicious influence of the Soviet Union, and COMMIE NONSENSE. Nina interrupts her a few times to discuss the incitement of mobs, Kellie-Jay Keene's US tour, and why Dale thinks feminism is “mad.” After a short vape break, Dale returns to Liberal Toryism, freedom of association, Hadrian's Rescript, loos in developing countries, “non-crime hate incidents” in the UK, the marketplace of ideas, and why “lobbyists are bonkers”. Can the Law save humanity from itself? Listen up and pay attention, because Dale's citations fly faster than the pages of a thrown encyclopedia. A Mere Sampling of Links: Helen Dale on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Helen-Dale/e/B001K82V2G%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Helen Dale on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_helendale Law & Liberty: https://lawliberty.org/author/helen-dale/ Louise Perry: https://www.louisemperry.co.uk/ The Secret of Our Success: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691178431/the-secret-of-our-success International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/international-covenant-civil-and-political-rights FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression: https://www.thefire.org/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heterodorx/support

Today I'm speaking with the Australian writer and retired lawyer, Helen Dale. Helen is best known for writing The Hand that Signed the Paper, a novel about a Ukrainian family who collaborated with the Nazis in The Holocaust. The book was published in in 1994 and won the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's top literary prize. Helen became the award's youngest winner. However, controversy ensued after it became known that Helen had been trolling the diversity obsessed literary establishment by claiming to be Ukrainian and basing the book on interviews with her relatives (she'd published under the pseudonym “Helen Demidenko”). Today, however, I'm speaking with Helen about something much more personal: growing up gifted. Helen has, in her own words, a “freakishly high” IQ. As someone very interested in giftedness, I thought I could pose some of the most asked questions on Quora to Helen about living life with an IQ at the 99.9th percentile. The conversation is wide-ranging, so you might like to make use of the timestamps in the YouTube video. I've also pasted them below. Links to Helen's work: Helen has authored three works of fiction. She writes for Law & Liberty (you can find the full archive of her articles here). And make sure to subscribe to Helen's Substack here. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 4:05 Helen discusses her early infamy 14:30 The right to write & elite overproduction 16:08 How “The System” works & going into law 18:00 How Helen and I met & the big brains of headline writers 19:45 Helen's “lived experience” with a high IQ 22:35 The intricacies of Latin & Greek 25:10 On being challenged intellectually in law 27:45 Professionals are often smarter than academics 32:58 Helen's thoughts on education policy and her own schooling 37:15 The value of school discipline & the Michaela School 43:13 What is school for? 53:54 American ignorance & social class 58:48 The duty of the gifted 1:01:05 On Taleb's critique of IQ 1:07:30 Helen's obsession with law 1:11:32 Who's the smartest person Helen has met? 1:13:28 Why piloting is so “g loaded” 1:16:50 How maths students are ranked at Cambridge 1:18:19 Preemies and left-handers 1:19:50 Is it lonely at the right-hand tail? 1:22:20 Organising the Jewish lobby in Australia & being right-wing 1:26:18 Australia's gift to the world 1:31:30 The law & embryo selection 1:38:20 Authoritarian states creating super athletes & soldiers 1:39:02 Helen talks about her speculative fiction books 1:41:20 Competing with other countries 1:44:14 The biggest legal challenges for new genetic technology 1:50:42 What does it mean to be truly educated?

Tony Abbott was Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 until 2015. A brilliant and ruthless Leader of the Opposition, Abbott's blunt and confrontational style fell flat as prime minister. After just two years in charge, Abbott was deposed by Malcolm Turnbull, leaving office as the most unpopular Australian PM of modern times. Abbott's brief premiership represents part of what today's guest calls the “Italy with Crocodiles” period- Australia had six prime ministers in eight years, but all the while remained one of the best governed countries in the world. At a time when the UK is selecting its third prime minister in six years, the UK would do well to learn from the Australian experience, especially because Britain, unlike Australia, cannot point to stellar governance or administration from top to bottom. As such, this episode is as much about the wider Italy with Crocodiles period as it is about Abbott, and as much about our near future here in Britain as it is about Australia's recent past. My guest today is Helen Dale (tweets @_HelenDale). Helen is the author of several novels, including the award-winning The Hand that Signed the Paper, and also worked as Chief of Staff and legal advisor to Australian Senator David Leyonhjelm at the time of Tony Abbott's premiership. She has also written for the Telegraph and the Spectator, as well as daily newspaper the Australian. 

What if the Roman Empire had experienced an Industrial Revolution? That's the compelling hook of Helen Dale's two-part novel, Kingdom of the Wicked: Rules and Order. Drawing on economics and legal history, Helen's story follows the arrest and trial of charismatic holy man Yeshua Ben Yusuf in the first century — but one with television, flying machines, cars, and genetic modification.In this episode of Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I dive into the fascinating world-building of Kingdom of the Wicked with Helen. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.James Pethokoukis: Your Kingdom of the Wicked books raise such an interesting question: What would have happened if Jesus had emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution? What led you to ask this question and to pursue that answer through these books?Helen Dale: There is an essay in the back of book one, which is basically a set of notes about what I brought to the book when I was thinking. And that has been published elsewhere by the Cato Institute. I go into these questions. But the main one, the one that really occurred to me, was that I thought, what would happen if Jesus emerged in a modern society now, rather than the historic society he emerged in? I didn't think it would turn into something hippy-dippy like Jesus of Montreal. I thought it would turn into Waco or to the Peoples Temple.And that wasn't necessarily a function of the leader of the group being a bad person. Clearly Jim Jones was a very bad person, but the Waco story is actually much more complex and much messier and involves a militarized police force and tanks attacking the buildings and all of this kind of thing. But whatever happened with it, it was going to go badly and it was going to end in violence and there would be a showdown and a confrontation. And it would also take on, I thought — I didn't say this in the essay, but I thought at the time — it would take on a very American cast, because that is the way new religious movements tend to blow up or collapse in the United States.And so I was thinking this idea, through my head, “I would like to do a retelling of the Jesus story, but how do I do it? So it doesn't become naff and doesn't work?” And so what I decided to do was rather than bring Jesus forward and put him now, I would put us back to the time of Jesus — but take our technology and our knowledge, but always mediated by the fact that Roman civilization was different from modern civilization. Not in the sense of, you know, human beings have changed, all that kind of thing. We're all still the same primates that we have been for a couple of hundred thousand years or even longer. But in the sense that their underlying moral values and beliefs about the way the world should work were different, which I thought would have technological effects. The big technological effect in Kingdom of the Wicked is they're much better at the biosciences and the animal sciences. They're much weaker at communications. Our society has put all its effort into [communication]. Their society is much more likely to put it into medicine.To give you an idea: the use of opioids to relieve the pain of childbirth is Roman. And it was rediscovered by James Young Simpson at The University of Edinburgh. And he very famously used the formula of one of the Roman medical writers. So I made a very deliberate decision: This is a society that has not pursued technological advancement in the same way as us. It's also why their motor vehicles look like the Soviet-era ones with rotary engines. It's why their big aircraft are kind of like Antonovs, the big Ukrainian aircraft that we've all been reading about since the war has started in Ukraine. So, in some respects, there are bits of their culture that look more Soviet, or at least Britain in the 1950s. You know, sort of Clement Attlee's quite centralized, postwar settlement: health service, public good, kind of Soviet-style. Soft Soviet; it's not the nasty Stalinist sort, but like late-Soviet, so kind of Brezhnev and the last part of Khrushchev. A few people did say that. They were like, “Your military parades, they look like the Soviet Union.” Yes. That was deliberate. The effort has gone to medicine.It's an amazing bit of world-building. I was sort of astonished by the depth and the scale of it. Is this a genre that you had an interest in previously? Are there other works that you took inspiration from?There's a particular writer of speculative fiction I admire greatly. His name is S.M. Stirling, and he wrote a series of books. I haven't read every book he wrote, but he wrote a series of books called the Draka series. And it's speculative fiction. Once again, based on a point of departure where the colonists who finished up in South Africa finished up using the resources of South Africa, but for a range of reasons he sets out very carefully in his books, they avoid the resource curse, the classic economist's resource curse. And so certainly in terms of a popular writer, he was the one that I read and thought, “If I can do this as well as him, I will be very pleased.”I probably didn't read as much science fiction as most people would in high school, unless it was a literary author like Margaret Atwood or George Orwell. I just find bad writing rebarbative, and a lot of science fiction struggles with bad writing. So this is the problem, of course, that Douglas Adams famously identified. And one of the reasons why he wrote the Hitchhiker's books was to show that you could combine science fiction with good writing.In all good works of speculative fiction of the alt-history variant, there's an interesting jumping-off point. I would imagine you had a real “Eureka!” moment when you figured out what your jumping-off point would be to make this all plausible. Tell me about that.Well, yes. I did. Once I realized that points of departure hugely mattered, I then went and read people like Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle. The point of departure for him is the assassination of Roosevelt. I went and read SS-GB [by] Len Deighton, a great British spycraft writer but also a writer of speculative fiction. And in that case, Britain loses the Battle of Britain and Operation Sea Lion, the putative land invasion of the UK, is successful. And I really started to think about this and I'm going, "Okay, how are you going to do this point of departure? And how are you going to deal with certain economic issues?"I'm not an economist, but I used to practice in corporate finance so I've got the sort of numerical appreciation for economics. I can read an economics paper that's very math heavy because that's my skill based on working in corporate finance. And I knew, from corporate finance and from corporate law, that there are certain things that you just can't do, you can't achieve in terms of economic progress, unless you abolish slavery, basically. Very, very basic stuff like human labor power never loses its comparative advantage if you have just a market flooded with slaves. So you can have lots of good science technology, and an excellent legal system like the Romans did. And they reached that point economists talk about of takeoff, and it just never happens. Just, they miss. It doesn't quite happen.And in a number of civilizations, this has happened. It's happened with the Song dynasty in China. Steve Davies has written a lot about the Song dynasty, and they went through the same thing. They just get to that takeoff point and then just … fizzled out. And in China, it was to do with serfdom, basically. These are things that are very destructive to economic progress. So you have to come up with a society that decides that slavery is really shitty. And the only way to do that is for them to get hooked on the idea of using a substitute for human labor power. And that means I have to push technological innovation back to the middle republic.So what I've done for my point of departure is at the Siege of Syracuse [in 213-212 B.C.]. I have Archimedes surviving instead of being killed. He was actually doing mathematical doodles outside his classroom, according to the various records of Roman writers, and he was killed by some rampaging Roman soldier. And basically Marcellus, the general, had been told to capture Archimedes and all his students and all their kids. So you can see Operation Paperclip in the Roman mind. You can see the thinking: “Oh no, we want this fellow to be our DARPA guy.” That's just a brilliant leap. I love that.And that is the beginning of the point of departure. So you have the Romans hauling all these clever Greek scientists and their families off and taking them to Rome and basically doing a Roman version of DARPA. You know, Operation Paperclip, DARPA. You know, “Do all the science, and have complete freedom to do all the…” — because the Romans would've let them do it. I mean, this is the thing. The Romans are your classic “cashed up bogans,” as Australians call it. They had lots of money. They were willing to throw money at things like this and then really run with it.You really needed both. As you write at one point, you needed to create a kind of a “machine culture.” You sort of needed the science and innovation, but also the getting rid of slavery part of it. They really both work hand in hand.Yes. These two have to go together. I got commissioned to write a few articles in the British press, where I didn't get to mention the name of Kingdom of the Wicked or any of my novels or research for this, but where people were trying to argue that the British Empire made an enormous amount of money out of slavery. And then, as a subsidiary argument, trying to argue that that led to industrialization in the UK. … [So] I wrote a number of articles in the press just like going through why this was actually impossible. And I didn't use any fancy economic terminology or anything like that. There's just no point in it. But just explaining that, “No, no, no. This doesn't work like that. You might get individually wealthy people, like Crassus, who made a lot of his money from slavery.” (Although he also made a lot from insurance because he set up private fire brigades. That was one of the things that Crassus did: insurance premiums, because that's a Roman law invention, the concept of insurance.) And you get one of the Islamic leaders in Mali, King Musa. Same thing, slaves. And people try to argue that the entirety of their country's wealth depended on slavery. But what you get is you get individually very wealthy people, but you don't get any propagation of the wealth through the wider society, which is what industrialization produced in Britain and the Netherlands and then in Germany and then in America and elsewhere.So, yes, I had to work in the machine culture with the abolition of slavery. And the machines had to come first. If I did the abolition of slavery first, there was nothing there to feed it. One of the things that helped Britain was Somerset's case (and in Scotland, Knight and Wedderburn) saying, “The air of the air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe.” You know, that kind of thinking. But that was what I realized: It was the slavery issue. I couldn't solve the slavery issue unless I took the technological development back earlier than the period when the Roman Republic was flooded with slaves.The George Mason University economist Mark Koyama said if you had taken Adam Smith and brought him back to Rome, a lot of it would've seemed very recognizable, like a commercial, trading society. So I would assume that element was also pretty important in that world-building. You had something to work with there.Yes. I'd read some Stoic stuff because I did a classics degree, so of course that means you have to be able to read in Latin. But I'd never really taken that much of an interest in it. My interest tended to be in the literature: Virgil and Apuleius and the people who wrote novels. And then the interest in law, I always had an advantage, particularly as a Scots lawyer because Scotland is a mixed system, that I could read all the Roman sources that they were drawing on in the original. It made me a better practitioner. But my first introduction to thinking seriously about stoicism and how it relates to commerce and thinking that commerce can actually be a good and honorable thing to do is actually in Adam Smith. Not in The Wealth of Nations, but in Moral Sentiments, where Adam Smith actually goes through and quotes a lot of the Roman Stoic writers — Musonius Rufus and Epictetus and people like that — where they talk about how it's possible to have something that's quite base, which is being greedy and wanting to have a lot of money, but realizing that in order to get your lot of money or to do really well for yourself, you actually have to be quite a decent person and not a s**t.And there were certain things that the Romans had applied this thinking to, like the samian with that beautiful red ceramic that you see, and it's uniform all through the Roman Empire because they were manufacturing it on a factory basis. And when you come across the factories, they look like these long, narrow buildings with high, well-lit windows. And you're just sort of sitting there going, “My goodness, somebody dumped Manchester in Italy.” This kind of thing. And so my introduction to that kind of Stoic thinking was actually via Adam Smith. And then I went back and read the material in the original and realized where Adam Smith was getting those arguments from. And that's when I thought, “Ah, right. Okay, now I've got my abolitionists.”This is, in large part, a book about law. So you had to create a believable legal system that did not exist, unlike, perhaps, the commercial nature of Rome. So how did you begin to work this from the ground up?All the substantive law used in the book is Roman, written by actual Roman jurists. But to be fair, this is not hard to do. This is a proper legal system. There are only two great law-giving civilizations in human history. The Romans were one of them; the English were the other. And so what I had to do was take substantive Roman law, use my knowledge of practicing in a mixed system that did resemble the ancient Roman system — so I used Scotland, where I'd lived and worked — and then [put] elements back into it that existed in antiquity that still exists in, say, France but are very foreign, particularly to common lawyers.I had lawyer friends who read both novels because obviously it appeals. “You have a courtroom drama?” A courtroom drama appeals to lawyers. These are the kind of books, particularly if it's written by another lawyer. So you do things like get the laws of evidence right and stuff like that. I know there are lawyers who cannot watch The Wire, for example, because it gets the laws of evidence (in the US, in this case) wrong. And they just finish up throwing shoes at the television because they get really annoyed about getting it wrong.What I did was I took great care to get the laws of evidence right, and to make sure that I didn't use common law rules of evidence. For example, the Romans didn't have a rule against hearsay. So you'll notice that there's all this hearsay in the trial. But you'll also notice a mechanism. Pilate's very good at sorting out what's just gossip and what is likely to have substantive truth to it. So that's a classic borrowing from Roman law, because they didn't have the rule against hearsay. That's a common law rule. I also use corroboration a lot. Corroboration is very important in Roman law, and it's also very important in Scots law. And it's basically a two-witness rule.And I did things, once again, to show the sort of cultural differences between the two great legal systems. Cornelius, the Roman equivalent of the principal crown prosecutor. Cornelius is that character, and he's obsessed with getting a confession. Obsessed. And that is deeply Roman. The Roman lawyers going back to antiquity called a confession the “Queen of Proofs.” And of course, if confessions are just the most wonderful thing, then it's just so tempting to beat the snot out of the accused and get your bloody confession. Job done. The topic of the Industrial Revolution has been a frequent one in my writings and podcasts. And one big difference between our Industrial Revolution and the one you posit in the book is that there was a lot of competition in Europe. You had a lot of countries, and there was an incentive to permit disruptive innovation — where in the past, the proponents of the status quo had the advantage. But at some point countries realized, “Oh, both for commerce and military reasons, we need to become more technologically advanced. So we're going to allow inventors and entrepreneurs to come up with new ideas, even if it does alter that status quo.” But that's not the case with Rome. It was a powerful empire that I don't think really had any competitors, both in the real world and in your book.That and the chattel slavery is probably why it didn't finish up having an industrial revolution. And it's one of the reasons why I had to locate the innovation, it had to be in the military first, because the military was so intensely respected in Roman society. If you'd have got the Roman military leadership coming up with, say, gunpowder or explosives or that kind of thing, the response from everybody else would've been, “Good. We win. This is a good thing.” It had to come from the military, which is why you get that slightly Soviet look to it. There is a reason for that. The society is more prosperous because it's a free-market society. The Romans were a free-market society. All their laws were all sort of trade oriented, like English law. So that's one of those things where the two societies were just really similar. But in terms of technological innovation, I had to locate it in the army. It had to be the armed forces first.In your world, are there entrepreneurs? What does the business world look like?Well, I do try to show you people who are very commercially minded and very economically oriented. You've got the character of Pilate, the real historical figure, who is a traditional Tory lawyer, who has come up through all the traditional Toryism and his family's on the land and so on and so forth. So he's a Tory. But Linnaeus, who he went to law school with, who is the defense counsel for the Jesus character, Yeshua Ben Yusuf, is a Whig. And his mother was a freed slave, and his family are in business in commerce. They haven't bought the land.A lot of these books finished up on the cutting room floor, the world-building. And there is a piece that was published in a book called Shapers of Worlds: Volume II, which is a science-fiction anthology edited by a Canadian science-fiction author called Ed Willett. And one of the pieces that finished up on the cutting room floor and went into Shapers of Worlds is a description of Linnaeus's family background, which unfortunately was removed. You get Pilate's, but you don't get Linnaeus's. And Linnaeus's family background, his dad's the factory owner. The factory making cloth. I was annoyed with my publisher when they said, “This piece has to go,” and I did one of those snotty, foot-stamping, awful things. And so I was delighted when this Canadian publisher came to me and said, “Oh, can we have a piece of your writing for a science-fiction anthology?” And I thought, “Oh good. I get to publish the Linnaeus's dad story in Shapers of Worlds.”And I actually based Linnaeus's dad — the angel as he's referred to, Angelus, in the Kingdom of the Wicked books, and his personality is brought out very strongly — I actually based him on John Rylands. Manchester's John Rylands, the man who gave his name to the Rylands Library in Manchester. He was meant to be the portrait of the entrepreneurial, Manchester industrialist. And to this day, authors always have regrets, you don't always get to win the argument with your publisher or your editor, I am sorry that that background, that world-building was taken out of Kingdom of the Wicked and finished up having to be published elsewhere in an anthology. Because it provided that entrepreneurial story that you're talking about: the factory owner who is the self-made man, who endows libraries and technical schools, and trains apprentices, and has that sort of innovative quality that is described so beautifully in Matt Ridley's book, How Innovation Works, which is full of people like that. And this book as well, I've just bought: I've just bought Arts and Minds, which is about the Royal Society of Arts. So this is one of those authorial regrets: that the entrepreneur character wasn't properly fleshed out in the two published books, Kingdom of the Wicked book one and book two. And you have to get Shapers of Worlds if you want to find out about Linnaeus's industrialist dad.Is this a world you'd want to live in?Not for me, no. I mean, I'm a classically trained lawyer. So classics first, then law. And I made it a society that works. You know, I don't write dystopias. I have a great deal of admiration for Margaret Atwood and George Orwell, who are the two greatest writers of dystopias, in my view, in contemporary, and not just contemporary fiction, probably going back over a couple of hundred years. Those two have really got it, when it comes to this vision of horror. You know, the boot stamping on the human face forever. I greatly admire their skill, but those are not the books I write. So the society I wrote about in Kingdom of the Wicked is a society that works.But one of the things I deliberately did with the Yeshua Ben Yusuf character and what were his early Christian followers, and the reason I've taken so much time to flesh them out as real characters and believable people [is] because the values that Christianity has given to the West were often absent in the Roman world. They just didn't think that way. They thought about things differently. Now some of those Christian values were pretty horrible. It's fairly clear that the Romans were right about homosexuality and abortion, and the Christians were wrong. That kind of thing. That's where they were more liberal. But, you will have noticed, I don't turn the book into Gattaca. I try to keep this in the background because obviously someone else has written Gattaca. It's an excellent film. It's very thought provoking. I didn't want to do that again. It's kept in the background, but it is obvious — you don't even really need to read between the lines — that this is a society that engages in eugenics. You notice that all the Roman families have three children or two children, and there's always a mix of sexes. You never have all boys or all girls. You know what they're doing. They're doing sex-selective abortions, like upper-class Indians and Chinese people do now. You've now dealt with the problem of not enough girls among those posh people, but they still want a mixture of the two. You notice that the Romans have got irritatingly perfect teeth and their health is all very good. And people mock Cyler, one of the characters, because his teeth haven't been fixed. He's got what in Britain get called NHS teeth. He hasn't got straightened teeth, because he genuinely comes from a really, really poor background. I have put that in there deliberately to foil those values off each other, to try to show what a world would look like where there are certain values that will just never come to the fore.And as you mentioned, industry: how those values also might influence which areas technology might focus on, which I think is a great point.I did that quite deliberately. There is a scene in the first book in Kingdom of the Wicked where Linnaeus — who's the Whig, the nice Whig, the lovely Whig who believes in civil rights and justice and starts sounding awfully Martin Luther King-ish at various points, and that kind of thing; he's the most likable form of progressive, Stoic Roman ideas — and when he encounters a child that the parents have kept alive, a disabled child, which in his society would just be put down at birth like Peter Singer, they have Peter Singer laws, he's horrified. And he doesn't even know if it's human.I actually wrote a piece about this couple of years ago for Law & Liberty, for Liberty Fund. I did find that people wanted to live in this sort of society. And I just sort of thought, “Hmm, there are a lot more people out there who clearly agree with things like eugenics, Peter Singer laws, a society that has absolutely no welfare state. None.” There are people who clearly find that kind of society attractive. And also the authoritarianism, the Soviet-style veneration of the military. A lot of people clearly quite like that. And clearly like that it's a very orderly society where there are lots of rules and everybody knows where they stand. But even when the state is really, really very powerful.I deliberately put a scene in there, for example, where Pilate's expectorating about compulsory vaccinations — because he's a Roman and he thinks compulsory vaccinations save lives and he doesn't give a s**t about your bodily integrity. I did try to leave lots of Easter eggs, to use a gaming expression, in there to make it clear that this is a society that's a bit Gattaca-ish. I did that for a reason.I don't know if there's a sequel in mind, but do you think that this world eventually sort of Christianizes? And if this is what the world looks like 2000 years ago, what would that world look like today?I haven't thought of the answer to the first one. I must admit. I don't really know the answer to that. But in the second one, I did discuss this in quite a bit of detail with my then partner. And she said, “I honestly think that with that sort of aggressiveness and militarism, they will finish up conquering the planet. And then it'll start looking like a not-nice version of Star Trek. It won't be the Federation. It will be much more likely to be Khan and the Klingons and they'll start looking really, really Klingon basically.” That was her comment at the time.Like a more militaristic version of Star Trek.Yeah. But sort of very militarized and not the Prime Directive or any of that. Obviously Star Trek is very much an American conception of Americans in space. My Romans in space would look much more like the Centauri out of Babylon 5 or the Klingons in Star Trek. They would be much more aggressive and they'd be a lot more ambiguous…I don't know how much of a Star Trek fan you are, but of course there's the mirror universe, which kind of looks like that. We have the evil Kirk and the evil Spock. There's still advance, but there's like a Praetorian Guard for the captain and…All of that. Yes. I hadn't really thought about the first question, but the second question I thought, “Yeah, if this persists into the future, imagining a hypothetical future, then I think you are going to be dealing with people who are really, really quite scary.”Apparently you're not working on a sequel to this book, but what are you working on? Another book?Yes. I'm actually being pursued at the moment by a British publisher, who I won't drop into it because otherwise, if I say the name, then I will never, never be forgiven. And then they will insist on me writing a book. I'm never going to be the world's most super productive novelist. I think that I may finish up in my life writing maybe another two. I look at Stephen King. That man writes a door stopper of a book every time he sits down to have a hot meal. Incredible. How does he do it? I'm not that person.Helen, thank you so much for coming on the podcast.Thank you very much for having me. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

I had a great opportunity to speak with Edward and it was super awesome. Edward is definitely a superb writer. He has been writing for many years and Edward told Keepin It Real all about his journey and how he became an amazing writer. He has wrote for many people and doesn't mind helping other writers and authors. Edward Willett, an award-winning Saskatchewan-based author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction for readers of all ages, has launched a Kickstarter campaign on March 8 to fund a third annual anthology featuring some of the top writers of science fiction and fantasy working today, all of whom were guests on his Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers (www.theworldshapers.com). Shapers of Worlds Volume III featured new fiction from Griffin Barber, Gerald Brandt, Miles Cameron, Sebastien de Castell, Kristi Charish, David Ebenbach, Mark Everglade, Frank J. Fleming, Violette Malan, Anna Mocikat, James Morrow, Jess E. Owen, Robert G. Penner, Cat Rambo, K.M. Rice, and Edward Willett; poetry from Jane Yolen; and additional stories by Cory Doctorow, K. Eason, Walter Jon Williams, and F. Paul Wilson. Among those authors are several international bestsellers, as well as winners and nominees for every major science fiction and fantasy literary award. All of the authors were guests during the third year of The Worldshapers, where Willett interviews other science fiction and fantasy authors about their creative process. Backers' rewards offered by the authors include numerous e-books, signed paperback and hardcover books (including limited editions), Tuckerizations (a backer's name used as a character name), commissioned artwork, original poetry (from Jane Yolen), audiobooks, opportunities for online chats with authors, short-story critiques, and more. The Kickstarter campaign can be found at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edwardwillett/shapers-of-worlds-volume-iii. The campaign goal was $12,000 CDN. Most of those funds will go to pay the authors, with the rest going to reward fulfillment, primarily the editing, layout, and printing of the book, which will be published in both ebook and trade paperback formats by Willett's publishing company, Shadowpaw Press (www.shadowpawpress.com). The special Kickstarter edition for backers will be followed by a commercial release this fall. Stretch goals are simple: for every $5,000 over the goal the campaign raises, the authors will be paid one cent a word more. Shapers of Worlds Volume III is a follow-up to Shapers of Worlds, successfully Kickstarted in 2020, and Shapers of Worlds Volume II, Kickstarted last year. Shapers of Worlds included new fiction from Tanya Huff, Seanan McGuire, David Weber, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., John C. Wright, D.J. Butler, Christopher Ruocchio, Shelley Adina, and Edward Willett, plus reprints from John Scalzi, Joe Haldeman, David Brin, Julie E. Czerneda, Fonda Lee, Gareth L. Powell, Dr. Charles E. Gannon, Derek Künsken, and Thoraiya Dyer. Shapers of Worlds Volume II featured new fiction from Kelley Armstrong, Marie Brennan, Helen Dale, Candas Jane Dorsey, Lisa Foiles, Susan Forest, James Alan Gardner, Matthew Hughes, Heli Kennedy, Lisa Kessler, Adria Laycraft, Ira Nayman, Garth Nix, Tim Pratt, Edward Savio, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Jeremy Szal, and Edward Willett, plus stories by Jeffrey A. Carver, Barbara Hambly, Nancy Kress, David D. Levine, S.M. Stirling, and Carrie Vaughn. As I said before Edward is an amazing person. If you want to to contact Edward on social media...all you have to do is find Edward Willett. Therefore, Edward is available for interviews, media appearances, speaking engagements, and/or book review requests. Please contact mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com by email or by phone at 403.464.6925. Thank you for your support and keep listening to the podcast. Book your interview with Keepin It Real. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/caramel-lucas/message

On this episode of Dan Wootton Uncancelled:Are the left underplaying female anger at the growing trans athlete row? British long distance runner Mara Yamauchi joins Dan to speak up for her sporting sisters.Why have the left declared a Falklands culture war? Neil Oliver weighs in on The Guardian effectively handing the islands to Argentina in The Outsider.With their Covid coverage prompting significant amounts of Ukraine scepticism, have the MSM ensured no one ever trusts them again? Writer and lawyer Helen Dale joins Dan to discuss. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Graham Stringer MP starts the show talking about Boris and parties. Angela Levin joins Mike to discuss the latest on Prince Andrew and the possibility of him facing a civil case. Helen Dale is here for Helen's Headlines, discussing Boris and the bash and Novak Djokovic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's #SWYSI, award-winning Australian writer and lawyer Helen Dale discusses all things Australia. Why does Australia appear so authoritarian these days? Is this a new phenomenon or is it rooted in Australia's history and culture? --------------- SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTube (click the Subscribe Button underneath the video and then Click on the Bell icon next to it to make sure you Receive All Notifications) AUDIO: If you prefer Audio you can subscribe on itunes or Soundcloud. Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-923838732 SUPPORT/DONATE / JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP SCHEME The NCF Channel is still very new and to continue to produce quality programming we need your support. Your donations will help ensure the channel not only continues but can grow into a major online platform challenging the cultural orthodoxies dominant in our institutions, public life and media. You can join our membership scheme or donate in a variety of ways via our website: http://www.newcultureforum.org.uk It is set up to accept one time and monthly donations. JOIN US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Web: http://www.newcultureforum.org.uk F: https://www.facebook.com/NCultureForum/ Y: http://www.youtube.com/c/NewCultureForum T: http://www.twitter.com/NewCultureForum (@NewCultureForum)

Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today's best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its second year, including international bestsellers and winners of every major award in the field as well as newer authors just beginning what promise to be stellar careers.There are brand-new stories from Kelley Armstrong, Marie Brennan, Garth Nix, Candas Jane Dorsey, Jeremy Szal, Edward Willett, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Lisa Foiles, Susan Forest, Matthew Hughes, Heli Kennedy, Helen Dale, Adria Laycraft, Edward Savio, Lisa Kessler, Ira Nayman, James Alan Gardner, and Tim Pratt, plus fiction by Jeffrey A. Carver, David D. Levine, Carrie Vaughn, Nancy Kress, Barbara Hambly, and S.M. Stirling.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Rentoul starts the show, reacting to what the Chancellor laid out yesterday. Ben Habib discusses the latest in the Brexit fishing row. Helen Dale and Mike chat about how a tribunal has ruled that speaking to a Liverpudlian like Harry Enfield isn't racist. Finally, Mark Borkowski speaks to Mike about John Lewis pulling their misleading T.V. advert. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Rentoul starts the show, reacting to Boris's comment about Kermit the Frog and going green. Trevor Kavanagh, Political Columnist at the Sun discussed the hypocritical Insulate Britain organisation. Policy Expert from Uswitch.com Justina Miltienyte gives advice on energy bills, and what to do if your energy provider has folded. Finally, Helen Dale gives her thoughts on the Melbourne anti-lockdown protests. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this special edition of Disaffected, we're joined by author Helen Dale for a conversation on the original cancel culture. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Helen Dale joins Carl to discuss how Joe Biden totally f'd up Afghanistan, the return of Trump, and Australia becoming a Covid police state.

Dr Rakib starts the show with Mike discussing the recent events happening in Afghanistan. Communications Director of the Henry Jackson Society joins Mike to discuss the recent revelation of the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fleeing to the UAE. Helen Dale returns to discuss New Zealand going into a three-day lockdown. Ben Habib discusses with Mike the geopolitical implications of the recent events in Afghanistan. Finally, journalist John Tierney joins Mike from New York to discuss 'The Panic Pandemic' and the decisions made in the US surrounding COVD-19. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Baroness Kate Hoey starts the show, speaking about the Northern Ireland Protocol. Co-Founder of UsForThem, Liz Cole, talks about the amount of children absent from school due to covid, or 'contact' of covid. Helen Dale and Mike discuss Britney Spears and the legal issues surrounding her conservatorship. Gardening Expert Mark Lane tells Mike about the positive impact gardening has on our health, and finally, Dr Simon Clarke explains about covid booster jabs. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Conservative MP Henry Smith starts off the show with Mike discussing the recent Cummings texts as well as the Tory revolt over delays to lockdown. Afterwards, Paul Charles joins Mike to talk about the latest in travel. Helen Dale returns to keep us updated on the new trade deal between Australia and the UK. Finally, Mike clashes with Chairman of Park Lane Healthcare, Chris Mitchell on mandatory vaccines for care workers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brendan Chilton starts the show. Alastair Kerr from the Campaign for Pubs discusses how Staycations are threatening to drink the pubs dry. Helen Dale and Mike have their weekly chat, talking about migrant crossings. Bill Borrows and Mike speak about documentaries. Finally, Motoring Journalist Quentin Willson talks to Mike about electric vehicles. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dan Hodges starts the show, discussing Cummings giving evidence yesterday. Helen Dale and Mike speak about if Cummings giving evidence resonates with people outside the 'Westminster Bubble,' and the Melbourne lockdown. Trevor Kavanagh continues the Cummings narrative, speaking about how people are looking forward to 'Freedom Day' and not last year's mistakes. Finally, Ben Habib and Mike talk about Migrants and how they will be barred from the NHS and will lose the right to work and benefits under the Home Office digital visa plan. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Richard Tice joins Mike in the studio to discuss the holiday police. Mark Borkowski and Mike discuss the infamous Martin Bashir and Diana interview. Helen Dale and Mike speak about the post- Brexit trade deal with Australia hitting UK agriculture. Lance Forman discusses anti - Semitism. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Helen Dale, Senior Writer at Law & Liberty, elaborates the differences between traditionalism and One Nation Conservatism noting some of the similarities with socialism as she addresses the spectrum of political responses in the face of pandemic mitigation policies. Dale also discusses the refusal of those who voted against Brexit to accept the electoral results, “not giving loser consent” within a democracy, while underscoring this moment’s political parallels to the civil war in Lebanon and the Moral Major in the US during the 1980s. Outlining the shifts in right-wing and left-wing politics highlighting the right’s tradition of reading “across the aisle”, Dale notes that the left is not only not abiding by this ethical obligation but she also links this critique to the the predatory academic publishing industry and the appalling abuses current within academia and media today which result in an entanglement of ideologies that clash where the oppressor-oppressed paradigms are discursively reproduced in order to silence opposing voices. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

Linda Millband, Head of Clinical Negligence at social justice law firm Thompsons Solicitors starts the show discussing the increasing number of patients unable to access face to face GP appointments and the dangerous flow on effects. Andrew Lambert, Professor of Naval History at King's College tells Mike about the history of naval battles between Britain and France as tensions escalate off the coast of Jersey over post-Brexit fishing rights. Helen Dale, Writer, Lawyer and Political Commentator explains why intelligence tests are meaningful. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Callum and guest Helen Dale discuss the Supreme Court advocacy for Twitter to become a public utility, the expansion of hate speech codes in the UK, and the Equality Act becoming pro-white. https://www.lotuseaters.com/the-podcast-of-the-lotus-eaters-104-with-helen-dale-06-04-21

Jamie Jenkins starts the show, and declares he will be standing in the upcoming elections. Christine Jardine discusses misogyny as a hate crime. Alp Mehmet talks about Asylum Seekers. Helen Dale speaks to Mike about police behaviour at the Sarah Everard vigil. Quentin Letts joins Mike to talk about his book, and how we need to stop being told what to do. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nigel Farage starts the show, talking about why he has left the Reform UK party and Meghan. Simon Calder joins Mike for the latest on travel. Helen Dale speaks to Mike about jail terms and the Home Secretary Priti Patel. Brendan Chilton discusses Labour's campaign launch for local elections. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brendan Chilton starts the show. Helen Dale and Mike chat about Australia taking on tech and social media giants. Hope Marshall speaks to Mike about the importance of supporting your local businesses. David Cain joins Mike to discuss festivals, as Leeds and Reading Festival have announced the show will go on! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We kick off the show speaking to Conservative MP, Alberto Costa, about ministers urging Brits not to book holidays. Then we catch up with Helen Dale, asking 'is it time to take control of the elite?' And we round off the show with Fenton Parsons who talks us through the impact lockdown has had on the entertainment industry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We kick things off with Nigel Farage's thoughts on Joe Biden's inauguration. Plus, Helen Dale has read the Brexit Deal so you don't have to. And we keep taking calls about smart motorways. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Award-winning author and political commentator Helen Dale takes Darren Grimes through her views on cancel culture, big tech, solving the migrant crisis, Dominic Cummings and the ongoing political realignment. 

Professor Sikora starts the show off. Helen Dale discusses how behaviour is being regulated in private places, and how it goes against the norm. Saqib Bhatti reacts to Chancellor Rishi Sunak's announcement. Russell Quirk talks about how rules allowing two extra storeys may provide 170,000new homes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Journalist, Lawyer and Author Helen Dale joins us for a second time. Support TRIGGERnometry: Paypal: https://bit.ly/2Tnz8yq https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media:  https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry:  Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

Christine Jardine discusses the extension of emergency Covid-10 powers. Benjamin Loughnane speaks about floating asylum centres. Helen Dale talks to Mike about students in lockdown in university halls. Graham Bartram from The Flag Institute tells Mike about the Union Jack. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Wooding joins Mike to talk about Rishi's new rescue plan and the track and trace app. Charles Rae, former Royal Editor of The Sun discusses Harry and Meghan's 'Anti-Trump' message. Helen Dale speaks about the vaccine, and voting systems. Sir John Redwood highlights his thoughts on the Government's latest plans to tackle the virus, and Lewis MacLeod gives Mike his best Presidential impression. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Starting the show, Nigel Farage and Mike discuss how calm seas trigger a surge in migrants crossing the channel. Charles Rae talks to Mike about the Sussexes, as they have signed a Netflix deal. Helen Dale carries on the cultural appropriation debate with Adele, and speaks about Tony Abbott. Finally, Dr Ed Bloomer, from Royal Museums Greenwich, informs Mike on the Northern Lights. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lance Forman speaks to Mike about getting people back in to cities. Helen Dale and Mike discuss Conservatism. Charlotte Ivers joins Mike in the studio to talk about the Liberal Democrat Leadership announcement. LaDona Harvey and Mike cover the latest from America. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Rentoul and Mike cover the government's Covid-19 measures. Criminal Barrister Jerry Hayes talks about courts, and the justice system. Helen Dale discusses Australia's Pacific Solution policy and Caitlin Richards takes the homeschooling segment on the Mariana Trench. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Benjamin Loughnane, from Migration Watch UK, joins Mike to chat about Patel's plans to shake-up the asylum system. Do you know what the woozle effect is? - Helen Dale, Writer, Lawyer and Political Commentator tells us more! And Jim Dale, Meteorologist from British Weather Services and Author of 'Weather or Not?' joins us to talk about the hot weather See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Leader of the Social Democratic Party William Clouston starts the show. Victoria Hills from Royal Town Planning Institute talks about the red tape being slashed in the planning revolution. Helen Dale speaks about The Silo Effect and cancel culture. Mike gets an american update from LaDona Harvey and Professor Thomas Crick covers digital cameras in the homeschooling segment. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Helen Dale is a British-Australian fiction writer, journalist and lawyer. Her first novel 'The Hand That Signed The Paper'  won the prestigious Miles Franklin Award and her latest two-part novel 'Kingdom of the Wicked' has also been a success. We discuss her fiction writing process, the real story behind Brexit, and her interest in Western culture and politics.Follow Zuby - https://twitter.com/zubymusic Follow Helen - https://twitter.com/_HelenDaleSponsor: FastBitcoins is committed to offering high quality Bitcoin-only services. Learn more at https://FastBitcoins.com, including how you can earn bitcoins for free through their referral scheme.Subscribe to the 'Real Talk With Zuby' podcast on iTunes, Spotify & Stitcher - https://fanlink.to/zubypodcastSupport Zuby on Patreon - https://patreon.com/zubymusicSpecial thanks to GOLD TIER Patreon members: Ebele Achor & Adam PattersonFollow Zuby on: Twitter - https://twitter.com/zubymusicFacebook - https://facebook.com/zubymusicInstagram - https://instagram.com/zubymusicWebsite - https://zubymusic.comBuy Team Zuby music and merchandise - https://teamzuby.com

Helen Dale discusses Brexit, the English Constitution, and the future of British politics.

Helen Dale is a columnist and commentator who also writes novels. Her first novel, The Hand That Signed the Paper, won the Miles Franklin award in Australia and also exposed Helen to cancel culture in 1995, long before it became what it is today. She and Bridget discuss the impossibility of proving you didn't do something, the fact that all press is no longer good press, how most lobbyists are morally feral, and why most valuable thing about free speech is not what people say, it’s the fact that people can speak. They cover how to react when the mob comes for you, the importance of the secret ballot, the fact that stereotypes don’t exist in a void, and how part of being a grown up is accepting that people will laugh at you. Full transcript available here: WiW61-HelenDale-Transcript

Helen Dale is a columnist and commentator who also writes novels. Her first novel, The Hand That Signed the Paper, won the Miles Franklin award in Australia and also exposed Helen to cancel culture in 1995, long before it became what it is today. She and Bridget discuss the impossibility of proving you didn’t do […]Sponsored by Ritual Join the conversation and comment on this podcast episode: https://ricochet.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-bridget-phetasy/helen-dale-and-the-changing-rules-and-ramifications-of-cancel-culture/.Now become a Ricochet member for only $5.00 a month! Join and see what you’ve been missing: https://ricochet.com/membership/.Subscribe to Walk-Ins Welcome w/ Bridget Phetasy in Apple Podcasts (and leave a 5-star review, please!), or by RSS feed. For all our podcasts in one place, subscribe to the Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed in Apple Podcasts or by RSS feed.

In this fantastic episode, we sat with writer Helen Dale to discuss: * What Right Wing Actually Means * The Australian Election and Israel Folau Support TRIGGERnometry: Paypal: https://bit.ly/2Tnz8yq https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media:  https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry:  Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

Eric Kaufmann, a politics professor at Birkbeck College and the author of Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities, and Ben Cobley, author of The Tribe: The Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity, talks to associate editor Toby Young. Kaufmann recently wrote a piece for Quillette about white privilege, arguing that non-whites discriminate in favour of whites as well as whites, so declining white populations won't necessarily end white privilege, and Ben Cobley's book was recently reviewed in Quillette by Helen Dale in which she praised him for explaining "how a frankly bonkers set of beliefs has stolen the Labour Party" and for showing "the danger of viewing people as members of fixed identity groups."

Eric Kaufmann, a politics professor at Birkbeck College and the author of Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities, and Ben Cobley, author of The Tribe: The Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity, talks to associate editor Toby Young. Kaufmann recently wrote a piece for Quillette about white privilege, arguing that non-whites discriminate in favour of whites as well as whites, so declining white populations won't necessarily end white privilege, and Ben Cobley's book was recently reviewed in Quillette by Helen Dale in which she praised him for explaining "how a frankly bonkers set of beliefs has stolen the Labour Party" and for showing "the danger of viewing people as members of fixed identity groups."

Helen Dale article from the spectator: ‘Too many artists, most of them crap.’‘Most people are only ever going to be drones. Telling them because they starred in the high school musical or wrote the best poem in the school magazine means they’re going to make it as an actor or writer is a monstrous lie that sets them up for disappointment.All the arts – but especially literature – have low barriers to entry. Huge numbers of people are attracted to what are seen to be glamorous fields like writing, acting, directing, and painting.Often, this is because one person is plucked from the crowd and becomes a star – there’s nothing quite like a narrative where we get to cheer on the underdog – known in the trade as a ‘winner takes all’ market. However, the economics of ‘crowded fields’ means the larger the number of participants, the more randomness and luck play a role in determining success.’‘There is nothing quite like seeing a modestly talented person crumple when they think an opportunity has been snatched from them when they have to go and drive for Uber or take a factory job. Even worse is the modestly talented person who persists (and persists) and is paid nothing at all while churning out content for Huffington Post.’Problems with democratised art:We lose the hierarchy of value, so we lose the thing that makes beauty and art compelling in the first placeThe market gets flooded, so it becomes unsustainable. It can’t support real talent, nor can it discriminate between talent and bullshit. We become jaded and cynical. Nothing has the power to impress any more. Also, overload can be used a form of censorship. Powerful people neutralise the power of art through democratisation. Problems with too much exclusivity in art:Creates a corrupt elite - it becomes about who you knowDefinitions of value become too rigid. Art is linked to a healthy, adaptive culture, so we need our value structure to be challenged all the time. It means that you end up treating a lack of creativity as the norm. The problem is not too many artists, so much as the ‘crowded field’ tends to reward careerism and journeyman achievement, rather the grandeur of ambition and nobility of soul. Creating beautiful art was always a matter of battling the odds. Now the obstacles are different, not any less challenging. What defines an artist is a seriousness of tone, a nobility of ambition. The anti-creativity model is often driven by a fear of it. And an obsession with ‘genius’ and ‘dazzling talent’ is very often itself a form of repression and resentment. A final quote from Nietzsche:‘Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can name great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became 'geniuses' (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all pos­sessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to con­struct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.’

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Alastair Benn sat down with Helen Dale, novelist and Brexiteer, to talk about 'Artists for Brexit', a campaign which challenges pro-Remain bias in the creative industries. Recorded at the Reaction offices.