The Victorians
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
We are not so far from the Victorians
There is no cause for despair
There’s truth in the toilet
Britain’s sewage problem requires a Victorian solution
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
