About Helen Dale
Welcome to Helen Dale’s scratch-pad
Given I already have a significant presence in mainstream outlets, a Substack may seem a bit surplus to requirements.
I nonetheless enjoy being able to work up ideas in advance of publication, and I miss doing it on Facebook (which is now both censorious and unusable). You’ll see things here from me before anyone else sees them elsewhere.
Professionally, I’m a lawyer as well as a writer so if I disappear for long periods it’s because I’m consulting.
Background: I’ve been a writer in a variety of outlets since 1993, and in various forms of legal practice since 2005. I’ve written three novels (the second’s cover is my logo), hundreds of thousands of words of legal and political commentary, and have been Senior Writer at Law & Liberty since January 2021.