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
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
