The Victorians
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
Big beasts versus the Bible
Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution
In praise of people’s parks
A civilising tradition has been sadly neglected
Rickards remembered
A fine tribute to an industrious architectural eccentric
Passionate subjectivity
La traviata, ENO, Coliseum
Why public health has become a dirty word
The field has been hijacked by a politicised and self-serving class of experts
Pains of Victorian labour
The experience of pregnancy and childbirth in 19th century Britain was no picnic
Degrading Dickens
How the BBC lowered expectations
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
All gone to look for America
The show is a mishmash, in need of some pruning and a sharper edge
Reasons to be cheerful
A pessimist tries to summon up Christmas cheer
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
