Monthly Archive: November 2023

Nov 02

Historians in high places can’t be intimidated by hard science

Ironically, it was a passing remark by Helen MacNamara in her evidence to the Covid inquiry that left me shaking my head in disbelief (sadly her observations re the toxic misogynistic culture that prevailed in Downing Street were all too predictable).  The former deputy cabinet secretary believed that, having graduated in History, she and several …

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