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
Boris brings up the rear
The prime minister is consistent only in his untidiness and unpreparedness
Sectarian cinema?
It may not be easy, but multicultural societies must embrace liberal values if they are to survive
Count your #blessings
A guide to drawing up a healthy resentment list
Too dangerous to live with
There’s no realist case for the lurking risk of nuclear armageddon
Private schools are a waste of money
Both Left and Right overstate their effect on educational ability and achievements in later life
Feminism has always been gender critical
Historical feminists knew better than anyone that biological sex is real
How to become a cult writer
What does it take for an author to become idolised way beyond their literary merit?
Ubiquitous, but bloody good
Time and global success hasn’t dimmed the appeal of dinner at Nobu
If it’s broken, fix it
The NI Protocol has not worked, and the EU has done nothing to live up to its commitment to it being temporary
Another country
The tales that show how rural life has changed
A new blasphemy law?
LGBT groups are demanding a ban on so-called “conversion therapy” — but the devil’s in the detail