Trains
Dickens derailed
Tom Chesshyre recounts Dickens’s troubled history with trains
Track rate
Tom Chesshyre has a soft spot for railway hotels
Back to the future
Trainsplaining a new world order
Storylines
Tom Chesshyre finds hidden tales on the platforms
Rail tracks
Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains
Is China heading for global empire or Soviet collapse?
Dan Blumenthal’s new book wants us to be pessimistic, realistic, and proactive
How liberal and egalitarian was nineteenth century France?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the conflicts and continuities of France from Louis Philippe to the Belle Epoque
Letter from Washington: This is Matt. Don’t be like Matt
Are Republicans serious?
Culture club
A cherished hub of post-colonial Indian life in London is under threat of closure
Cracking good meals
Explore the splendid panoply of egg recipes for an Easter, feast, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
The interior minister
Priti Patel makes the police case in parliament
Reality check: mathematics is not racist
Engaging with students on the history of mathematics would do far more than pretending that the subject abounds with racism
Syria’s civil war 10 years on
Syria’s war has licensed this century’s worst growth in violent depravity – and it shows no sign of ending soon
Cheques and balances
John Self says that while writing has always been seen as a vocation, the characters many authors care most about are the ones printed on their royalty statements
Uncool country
Country music has a frontline place in the culture wars, says Sarah Ditum