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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over