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Helen Charman

Helen Charman is the author of Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood.

Kid Starver and the Dadcore State

The Starmer years look set to be defined by the dour, authoritarian persona of the Prime Minister himself – a sort of nightmarish latter-day successor to ‘nanny to the nation’ Margaret Thatcher’, Margaret Thatcher. This, we might say, is dadcore.