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
Racing’s shame
British racing should have nothing to do with Sheikh Mohammed
Bloody opposition
The Tories have left Britain in the hands of managers, judges and technocrats
Not amused: Victoria in her own words
Beneath the excitable phrases and endless underlining, Victoria’s correspondence doggedly promoted a coherent policy
Reclaiming freedom in the arts
Great art that speaks of today cannot be made in a climate of fear
Trouble beneath the surface
Labour’s triumph obscures worrying signs of division and chaos brewing in British society
D stands for disgrace
He’ll start the defeat from right here
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
Being economical with the truth
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life). By George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
Crowning glory?
The coronation came and went far too quickly
The love that can’t be erased
A recent court case exposed the surrogacy industry’s big lie
