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Varying expectations
The ongoing “Dickens on Screen” season at the British Film Institute celebrates over a hundred years of screen adaptations of Dickens’s novels, to mark the author’s bicentenary year. Daniel Tyler looks back at four striking adaptations of Great Expectations and asks, why have filmmakers swapped Dickens’s equivocal ending for a... -
This time it’s different
It’s usually right to dismiss claims of politicians or investors that “It’s different this time.” But the ageing of Britain and the “rich” world presents governments with unprecedented problems. That is the central point made by our cover story, and by Nick Carn’s panoramic survey of economic threats. It might... -
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Orwell’s heir?
Historian Tony Judt brilliantly dissected the failings of liberalism. But in the end he fell into the same traps
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