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Helen McCarthy
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Cambridge Historian, London-dweller, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
Self-deprecation I can manage (see previous post) but not at sufficient pace or with adequate wit to qualify as banter.
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Thanks for writing this - am thinking of taking my MA students to see it, and now I can tell them to read your essay first!
November 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Or in other words, if I want to read a novel, I'll read a novel.
October 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Congrats Holly!
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I low-key agree.
October 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Julia, I’m so sorry you have to listen to this awful, scary stuff and I’m sending you all my positive vibes for your son’s surgery. Xxx
October 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Equalisation was a legitimate goal, & higher SPA for both sexes, maybe, given longevity gains. But how you label non-activity matters; for the individual, there’s a world of difference between claiming conditional working-age benefits and drawing your pension ‘by right’.
October 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM