December 24, 2021

Dickens hated Oliver Twist The Victorians virtue-signalled their way out of caring about poverty

Will Lloyd

30.11

Why writers loved to feud Today's bright young things are too wet for a scrap

Julie Burchill

20.09

How liberals made the British Empire The certainties of today's activists echo those of former colonialists

Aris Roussinos

28.07

We’ve followed Alice down the rabbit hole Something nasty has happened to children's storytelling in the years since Disney's fantasy

Mary Harrington

05.04

When Westminster needed a novelist Unlike many successful politicians, Anthony Trollope understood hard work

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

03.12

Maybe Scrooge was right Windy lectures on structural inequality won't change society, but kindness might

Giles Fraser

09.06

Dickens lives on in the streets of London The author's presence still haunts the city, 150 years after his death

Helen Thompson

28.10

The squalid myth of Dickensian London Despite the popular image of callous workhouses, life was vastly improved during the Industrial Revolution

Robert Tombs