Helen Dale is Senior Writer at Law & Liberty, a publication of Liberty Fund. She won the Miles Franklin Award in 1995 for her first novel, The Hand that Signed the Paper, and read law at Oxford and Edinburgh. Her most recent novel, Kingdom of the Wicked, was shortlisted for the 2019 Prometheus Prize for science fiction. She writes for a number of outlets, including The Spectator, The Australian, Standpoint, and Quillette. She lives in London, is on Substack at www.notonyourteam.co.uk, and on TwitterX @_HelenDale