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by | Apr 5, 2025

In March of this year, a case in Rotherham once again forced the United Kingdom to confront a reality it…

by | Sep 6, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, From Hellmarsh With Love, which is being released…

by | Jul 11, 2023

WASHINGTON — I have spent the last three weeks in a very pleasant place, Europe. Not in Moscow, nor in…

by | Feb 18, 2023

Augustus Welby Pugin (1812–1852) is in the news these days in the United Kingdom because he designed the iconic London…

by | Jan 13, 2023

Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age By Daisy Hay (Princeton University Press, 516 pages, $32)…

by | Sep 15, 2022

Three months ago, colorful crowds caroused in the streets of London as the queen stepped onto the Buckingham Palace balcony…

by | Sep 4, 2022

Good taste is in free fall. Also in free fall are manners, protocols, and formality. And London’s Savile Row, the…

by | Sep 3, 2022

New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is on the verge of introducing congestion pricing. In a risky and unprecedented move,…

by | Jul 22, 2022

The Turning Point: 1851 — A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Knopf, 368 pages,…

by | Sep 21, 2021

Washington — Or should I dateline this column “Mid-Atlantic,” or just “On the Ground at Heathrow”? Whatever, I feel this…

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