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
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Fear and favour
Are the police guilty of a “two tier” approach? They are if their own “Police Race Action Plan” is to be believed
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
