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
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
Unpacking neurodivergence and gender identity
Neurodivergent teenagers are in danger of having their struggles miscategorised
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
