Dickens
Dickens derailed
Tom Chesshyre recounts Dickens’s troubled history with trains
The fear of the fever: how we are now living the authentic Victorian experience
Covid-19 is bringing us closer to the Victorians more than any recreation of an 1830s London townhouse ever could
What the Dickens!
150 years since Dickens’s death, Alexander Larman evaluates the memorialised writer’s questionable politics
David Copperfield and the politics of diversity
Diverse casting of period adaptations is a risk worth taking
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
