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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
The Keynesian comeback
The coronavirus pandemic has allowed policymakers to revive discredited economic theories
Critic Columnist Suspended
Our fearless woke columnist has been mistaken for an evil right-wing satirist
Labour is braced to back Brady
Labour’s whips are ready to ally with Tory rebels
Trump is waging asymmetric warfare – and it’s working
Biden came in for some rough treatment in the first presidential debate
Could Harry and Meghan have learnt from Edward and Wallis?
Graham Stewart and Alexander Larman discuss how the House of Windsor adapts and endures
Higher education can make you stupid
Ironically, a denial of academic political bias reveals bias, pretension, and pseudo-intellectualism
All Booked Up
Is there a cure for bibliomania?
Peter King: a man of many talents
Remembering the great British saxophonist and prize-winning maker of model aircraft
Did Boris deliver?
The Prime Minister would prefer to overpromise than exceed expectations
Are we still talking to the EU?
Government spin is mixing the Brexit divorce agreement with the trade deal