Charles Dickens
Degrading Dickens
How the BBC lowered expectations
What the Dickens
Spin-offs are all very well, but can’t we have the real thing?
Ghosts at the feast
Christmas ghost stories are meditations on darkness at the darkest point of the year
An awful warning
Ainsworth’s fate was sealed not how he wrote but what he placed at the heart of his stories
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
Michael Gove’s new definition of “extremism” is extremely silly
We cannot define such a vague term with such vague terms
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
Staying in place
How history and heritage enrich our surroundings
Women MPs should be representing women’s interests
It was ludicrous to talk about microaggressions in the aftermath of an alkaline attack
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
British universities have a China problem
The increasing influence of the CCP is a threat to free inquiry and free expression
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
