April 14, 2025

Is Standard English dying out? Etonians are dropping their accents

Terry Eagleton

19.02

How the BBC betrayed EastEnders Albert Square has lost its working-class voice

Darran Anderson

31.03

Great Expectations has violated Dickens Steven Knight has robbed Pip of his dark alter-ego

Helen Thompson

24.12

Britain is haunted by Dickensian ghosts Loneliness stalks the Christmas season

Darran Anderson

20.12

Claire Keegan’s faithless Christmas Carol Her fable's success says much about secular society

Boyd Tonkin

19.12

The elitism of the river Thames Londoners aren't welcome on the riverside

Wessie du Toit

18.11

William MacAskill’s ineffective altruism Silicon Valley's favourite ethical system is fatally flawed

Arif Ahmed

07.09

Poverty is not inevitable Starving families won't settle for platitudes

Terry Eagleton

01.09

Britain’s pawnbrokers are booming People can no longer afford to be proud

Etan Smallman

16.07

Boris Johnson was too Dickensian Idiosyncrasy often ends in a kind of madness

Terry Eagleton

24.12

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