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Rough sleepers have flooded Castle Baynard Street with tents and makeshift kitchens in an image that could ripped straight from a Dickens novel

Sometimes, it really is true — they don’t make them like they used to, even fogs. London was once the home of the pea-souper – but have you noticed one lately? That’s almost certainly a good thing, though. The worst ever hit in December 1952: “an all encompassing smoke-laden yellow…

This Dickensian yarn of a celebrity writer heading for a fall combines the bling of an airport bestseller with an insider’s grasp on high culture

Letters: Paul Keleher KC says some lawyers fail to grasp a simple concept, while Petrina Stevens says it seems that some judges don’t understand what discrimination really is. Plus letters from Fiona MacArthur, Dr Elly Hanson and Dee Northover

London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – are solo shows the most successful?

Murphy plays a man who witnesses Ireland’s church’s abusive workhouses for unwed mothers in an absorbing Dickensian story based on recent history

From the first graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize to heartbreaking stories of mystery and adventure

Jodie Foster leads a darkly atmospheric reboot; Jack Rooke’s university comedy continues to charm. Plus, a raucous return for Dickens’s pickpocket; and are we all doomed?

The gags are crass, the names are silly and it's all a lot of fun