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
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall