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
Rainbow nation
Hannah Betts says colour is the new currency of the C-19 crisis
A surprising celebration
Good Friday is both a demonstration of, and the only answer to, what has gone wrong with the world
An eye for the world after Trump
Senator Tom Cotton ticks all the Republican White House boxes – provided the last incumbent bows out
Cyril Mango: A titan of Byzantine studies
The celebrated Byzantinist Cyril Mango died earlier this month; his insight will be keenly missed by enthusiasts of Byzantine studies
Violence is power in Northern Ireland
A cynic might think that a degree of loyalist violence in Northern Ireland was all part of the Brexit calculation
What would MLK say in an age of Covid-19 segregation?
Many people may soon be facing a choice between civil disobedience and Covid-19 restrictions, for which the words of America’s iconic civil-rights leader remain boldly relevant
The redemption we need
After a national Lent that has lasted a year, we can smell the blossom of hope
Milking it
There is nothing semi-skimmed about Sir Charles Walker
Cancelled by his college
How a panicking Cambridge institution obliterated the memory of one of its most famous sons
The detransitioners
Is it transphobic to worry about people who regret their surgery? David Scullion speaks to psychotherapist James Caspian and photographer Laura Dodsworth