23 OCTOBER 2004, page 16

What I Should Say Sorry For

Boris Johnson on his penitential pilgrimage to Liverpool am writing this in a cold, damp three-star hotel in Liverpool, and I have to admit I don't want to go out. Not only is......

Theodore Dalrymple

In the preface to Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens replied to those who accused him of being a mere caricaturist. What is caricature to one man, he said, is pure and unvarnished truth......